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United States: carbon markets summary
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Report summary
The United States (US) country report on carbon markets provides an in-depth overview of pricing and regulatory developments across all state level cap-and-trade systems, low carbon fuel standards, federal carbon border adjustment proposals, and the offset market, including its intersection with compliance markets
Table of contents
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Compliance carbon market
- Overview
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism
- Projected developments
- Existing markets
- Upcoming markets
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Carbon offset market
- Overview
- Regulations at the federal level
- Regulations at the state level
- Carbon offset market activity
- National and/or subnational carbon offset schemes
- Interest in engaging with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
- Key developments and/or risks
- Intersection between compliance and offset markets
- 1 more item(s)...
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Overview of compliance systems in the USOverview of CBAM proposals in the USCarbon offsets issued and unclaimed by top countries (MtCO2e) (2002-2024)
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Carbon offsets issued by project sectorCarbon offsets issued by registry (2002-2024)Carbon offsets unclaimed by offset sector and type (2002-2024)National and/or subnational carbon offset schemesCarbon offsets mechanisms
What's included
This report contains:
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