North American Carbon Market
Project scope
Categories
Mechanical engineering Market research Financial modeling Investment Environmental sustainabilitySkills
carbon markets energy system transition reforestation economics researchUnderstanding current state and future of carbon markets in North America
- Provide an overview of Voluntary Carbon Markets in the United States and Canada and juxtapose them against government compliance mechanism
- Detail the core market players including buyers, sellers, trading platforms, and 3rd party accreditation organizations
- Summarize how value of Carbon credit varies across the type of source: e.g. reforestation, CCUS (point source), DAC, offsets, etc.
- Detail the workings and impact of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in the United States and the Clean Fuel Regulations/Standard in Canada
- Summarize current research and outlooks on Low Carbon Fuel Standard markets in the US, primarily in California; and the Clean Fuel Regulations/Standard in Canada
- Primary public research across an ambiguous and inchoate industry
- Synthesize key themes from a broad variety of research sources
- Gain basic understanding of techno-economics of various energy transition technologies that generate carbon credits
- Generate hypotheses with regards to carbon market outlooks that can be further tested using Wood Mackenzie's knowledge base
- Staff time to kickoff
- ~2 interim review meetings
- Ability to ask Wood Mac experts
- Some access to Wood Mac information, if publicly available
- Direction based on Wood Mac experience
About the company
We are a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy natural resources sectors, empowering clients to make better strategic decisions, by arming them with objective analysis and advice on assets, companies and markets.
Our dedicated oil, gas, power, renewables, chemicals, metals and mining sector teams are located around the world, and deliver research and consulting projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies and economic indicators such as market supply, demand and price trends.
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