Global Carbon Markets and their role in Achieving Global Low Carbon Economy
Stan Kolar
This is one of the Lectures of Global Bay Area Green Development Forum 2021 :
Global Climate Change, Low-Carbon Economy & New Energy Development
Stan managed the first international carbon emissions trade in the world in 1993, which helped set the UN rules for trading greenhouse gas emissions in the Kyoto Protocol. He co-authored studies that the European Commission used as blueprint to set up the EU emissions trading scheme. He co-authored the ISO 14064 standard on greenhouse gas MRV, and authored UN-approved CDM project emissions accounting methodology for the power sector. Later he was a carbon trader, trading multiple carbon currencies in Europe and Asia. Stan has a degree in Economics from the School of Foreign Service as Georgetown University in Washington DC.