Enthusiasm for market-based solutions to environmental problems may have dimmed a bit with the financial markets’ collapse in 2008 and subsequent damage to the economy. But the 2009 global carbon market was estimated at $136 billion, and market-based approaches survive in 2010 in proposed U.S. climate legislation. The basic aim is to harness market forces to drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and compliance costs down.
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