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===The beginning of Emission Trading===
===The beginning of Emission Trading===
The birth of the idea of carbon credit currency came with the Kyoto Protocol. One target goal was the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a love that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. <ref> Singhal, N., & Gupta, H. (2011). Carbon Credit Currency for the Future. In W. Leal Filho, The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p. 208. </ref>
The birth of the idea of carbon credit currency came with the Kyoto Protocol. One target goal was the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a love that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. <ref name=Singal> Singhal, N., & Gupta, H. (2011). Carbon Credit Currency for the Future. In W. Leal Filho, The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p. 208. </ref>


One result of this was the “legally binding commitment for the reductions of four greenhouse gases” <ref> Singhal, N., & Gupta, H. (2011). Carbon Credit Currency for the Future. In W. Leal Filho, The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p. 209. </ref> for all member countries.
One result of this was the “legally binding commitment for the reductions of four greenhouse gases”<ref name=Singal/> for all member countries.
Another important point which has been regulated in Kyoto were mechanisms like “Emissions Trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation” <ref> Singhal, N., & Gupta, H. (2011). Carbon Credit Currency for the Future. In W. Leal Filho, The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p. 209. </ref>


Another important point which has been regulated in Kyoto were mechanisms like “Emissions Trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation”<ref name = Singal/>


==An introduction in the European Union Emission Trading System==
==An introduction in the European Union Emission Trading System==