Understanding emissions trading: navigating the regional greenhouse gas initiative - Complinet, Inc., by Lauren Teigland-Hunt and Sara Hayes

Abstract: Although a federal emissions reduction program targeting greenhouse gases has yet to be implemented in the United States, a number of regional and voluntary emissions reduction programs have emerged and created markets for the trading of US greenhouse gas emissions products. The program with one of the largest and most liquid of these markets is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). This article provides an overview of the RGGI program, followed by a discussion of various methods for participating in this market and some of the risks unique to RGGI products.