Singapore to tap into multi-billion dollar carbon trading market

Singapore to tap into multi-billion dollar carbon trading market

Singapore aims to be a key player in trading unused greenhouse gas quotas, estimated to be worth at least US$25 billion last year.

Under the Kyoto international agreement to reduce harmful emissions by 2012, some countries can buy extra greenhouse gas allowances from developing countries under a scheme called Clean Development Mechanism credits, or CDM.

Read more from this Yahoo news report, Jan 2007

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