Carbon Trading: A Potential For Arab Countries To Abate Climate Change | Ifi Research And Policy Memo #5

Research and Policy Memo #5 | June 2009 Carbon Trading: A Potential for Arab Countries to Abate Climate ChangeJad Chaaban,and Souheil Abboud Carbon emissions trading provides a financial incentive for Arab countries to mitigate the effects of climate change, but they still need to reduce carbon emissions and follow the Kyoto Protocol in an international effort to fend off global warming. This was the view from academia and the private sector on carbon trading as a climate change mitigation strategy for the Arab world, presented during a recent lecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB).