Chapter 19

Networked Carbon Markets

Permissionless Innovation With Distributed Ledgers?

Adrian Jackson1, Ashley Lloyd2, Justin Macinante3 and Markus Hüwener4,    1Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh1, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,    2Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh1, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,    3Law School, University of Edinburgh1, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,    4Independent Scholar, Frankfurt, Germany

Abstract

Carbon markets are key components in the climate change mitigation response, enabling a price to be placed on carbon emissions. Connecting these markets has the potential to allow a more integrated, efficient, and globally consistent price on carbon which will promote greater confidence in the ...

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