Trucost: Carbon Risks and Opportunities in Emerging Markets

Trucost IFC Emerging Markets Report[PDF]
20 pages | © October 2010 IFC | Complimentary

This report, produced by Trucost with support from IFC, analyzes how equity portfolios following different regional strategies could be exposed to carbon costs, with a focus on emerging markets. Carbon-intensive companies will increasingly pay to reduce or emit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under government policies and mechanisms such as performance standards, emissions trading and carbon taxes, and this has implications for listed equity fund managers.

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