Impact of Carbon Price

Pinoy Partners give an estimate of
$22B at 3.75$/ton, $120B at 16-20$/ton, and > $300B if carbon price is 50$/ton in
the article Just how big is the economic impact of a carbon price?

They dig a bit bit deeper in the next post



A couple of interesting case studies - EDS (mostly computers) and International Paper:

EDS reported scope 2 emissions of more than 500,000 metric tons in 2007. The cost impact under carbon pricing: $2 million, $10 million, or $25 million at prices of $4/MTCO2e, $20/MTCO2e, and $50/MTCO2e, respectively. That comes out to about .3%, 1.4%, or 3.5%, respectively, of net income. Or take 3M: their scope 2 emissions in 2007 were about 1.7 million metric tons of CO2e. For them, carbon pricing on electricity could add as much as $85 million to costs, but that only represents about 2% of net income....International Paper, whose 3.2 million metric tons could cost them an extra $160 million, or almost 14% of net income...

Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends

A vendor-driven survey but has interesting nuggets of information.


EcoSecurities, ClimateBiz and Baker & McKenzie LLP publish the findings of their recent ‘Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends’ survey results 2009.

Over three quarters of companies have implemented or have started developing a carbon management strategy

Two thirds of respondents have already offset their carbon emissions or will consider offsetting in the future

Environmental benefits (91%) were highlighted as one of the main motivations for interest in carbon offsets, closely followed by carbon neutrality and marketing (89%)

72% of participants nominated the US as the most desirable geographic region for purchasing offsets; this may reflect the desire for domestic projects as 56% of the respondents came from North America. Africa and South America were also rated as highly desirable locations for emission reduction projects

Respondents prefer renewable energy projects above any other project type with solar scoring 92% and wind 86%