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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (48865)	4/21/2004 5:54:01 AM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice, well here's a place to start. These folks at the World Bank are off reinventing: carbonfinance.org It seems like to World Bank fancies themselves starting a $20bn market for carbon emissions. I suppose it could stifle the economy but at least we'll be able to breathe the air. What I want to know is how to get 1% of a brand new $20bn market.. What is the likely size of the market for Emission Reductions? All estimates of market volume are speculative at this early stage in the market’s development. One way of looking at the potential size of the market is to assume that about one billion tonnes of carbon emissions must be reduced per year during the commitment period of 2008-2012 in order for the industrialized countries to meet their obligations of a 5% reduction in their 1990 levels of emissions. If half this volume of reductions is to occur through trade and the price range is $20-40 per ton of carbon emissions, the trade volume is in the range of $10-20 billion per year. Because developing countries have opportunities to achieve carbon Emission Reductions at around this price, a significant proportion of the trade is likely to occur between them and the industrialized countries under the CDM.