Voluntary Market
Voluntary Market is the designation of the markets or countries in which initiatives at the national level or from industry are concerned with reducing CO 2 emissions in industry or from traffic volumes without any obligation on the part of the nation states. The aim is to make it possible to trade in emissions rights ( emissions trading ).
Similar to the Kyoto Protocol , sometimes based on it, for example in the USA the states of California , Wisconsin , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , the New England states or in Canada the eastern provinces can set up a kind of own contribution with a voluntary system for emissions reduction without this the national government would have signed the Kyoto Protocol or without a national emissions trading system.
literature
- Anja Kollmuss, Helge Zink, Clifford Polycarp: Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market - A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards . Ed .: WWF Germany, Stockholm Environment Institute and Tricorona. March 2008 ( PDF ).