Global carbon market expanded 68 per cent in 2009

James S Murray
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The value of the market may have flat-lined, but the volume of credits being traded went from strength to strength

Despite global recession, falling carbon prices and ongoing questions about the effectiveness of carbon trading, credits equivalent to 82bn tonnes of carbon dioxide were traded last year, an increase of...

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