Industry Roundtables on Greenhouse Gases Reduction and Market-Based Approaches

Businesses are experiencing increasing demands to measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions. Market-based approaches (such as emissions trading) are increasingly being used as effective management tools. But how are businesses in the USA and Australia building capability to manage emissions and utilize market-based approaches? Australia, along with the USA, has decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and to pursue other approaches to greenhouse gas reduction.

With a Research Grant from the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, five 'Industry Greenhouse Roundtables on Capacity Building and Market-based Approaches' were conducted in the USA during 2002 - 2003. These compliment five industry Roundtables that were held in Australia during 2001. The US Roundtables were carried out while the researcher, Carrie Sonneborn was an intern at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

The goal of the Roundtables is to give industry the opportunity to explore how they would prepare for a carbon - constrained future using market-based approaches such as emissions trading. These insights will feed into the development of a practical framework and model for industry greenhouse response.

~ Additional Background and
Briefing Materials ~

~ General Agenda ~
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Analysis of the USA Roundtables from an Australian perspective.

Information: Carrie Sonneborn
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