OpenCarbonWorld Overview
OpenCarbonWorld is an open-access community dedicated to the promotion of market-based solutions to GHG emissions reductions.
It will achieve this by offering the most up-to-date and accurate information on emissions trading and carbon markets.
It will also serve as a forum for advocating policy positions that will advance market-based emission reduction solutions.
Key features of OpenCarbonWorld include:
- A mission to provide a source of clear, vetted market information to counter the vast quantities of misinformation, and disinformation flooding the Worldwide Web today
- To provide a forum for surfacing and resolving issues inhibiting the growth of the carbon market
- Sponsorship by key industry partners, widely respected for their acknowledged expertise in helping to establish, evolve and participate in successful carbon markets
- An editorial board drawn from these sponsors, which will take responsibility for maintaining the veracity and quality of all information contributed to the portal.
Open Carbon Portal
The OpenCarbonWorld portal consists of several components, designed to provide clarity, advocacy, collaboration, and market creation for emissions trading. These include:
- A Carbon Wiki - overseen by industry experts in which comprehensive, up-to-date industry knowledge will be openly available in one place
- A Carbon Library - to which recognized industry leaders contribute studies and white papers
- A Carbon Policy Dashboard - driven by a top-end statistical searches of a variety of news feeds, which will highlight immediate developments potentially impacting policy
- Hosting for a variety of industry workgroups including open source standards.
Please return when we are live in late summer '08.
If you would like to participate as a partner, editor, or contributor to OpenCarbonWorld, please email us at: opencarboncommunitymanager@misys.com.