forbidden words: carbon markets
carbon markets
carbon market noun
a commodity trading system through which countries and organizations can buy and sell permits to produce a set amount of carbon dioxide emissions and other atmospheric pollutants.
Etymology
Origin of carbon market
First recorded in 1975–80
from — Definition of carbon market. (n.d.). Dictionary.com
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example sentences: carbon market
California’s carbon market and zero-emission mandates have given the state outsize influence at summits such as COP30, where its policies are seen as both durable and exportable.
From Los Angeles Times
Benja Faecks of think tank Carbon Market Watch told AFP the focus should be on getting companies to stop polluting in the first place.
From Barron’s
The state was the first to mandate battery energy storage at its major utilities, helping jump-start the modern grid-battery market, while its cap-and-trade carbon market program has been emulated in places around the world.
From Los Angeles Times
Crowfoot highlighted California’s carbon market partnership with Quebec and one with Denmark that yielded groundwater monitoring technology that California uses today, among other examples of international efforts.
From Los Angeles Times
Some forestry projects within the voluntary carbon market have attracted significant criticism in recent years, leading to dramatic drops in demand for carbon credits.
From The Wall Street Journal
from — Definition of carbon market. (n.d.). Dictionary.com
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Carbon Markets
From the UN Environment Programme
Carbon markets are carbon pricing mechanisms enabling governments and non-state actors to trade greenhouse gas emission credits. The aims is to achieve climate targets and implement climate actions cost effectively.
There are two types of carbon markets: Compliance and voluntary. In compliance markets such as national or regional emissions trading schemes participants act in response to an obligation established by a regulatory body. In voluntary carbon markets, participants are under no formal obligation to achieve a specific target. Instead, non-state actors such as companies, cities or regions seek to voluntarily offset their emissions, for example, to achieve mitigation targets such as climate neutral, net zero emissions.
The 2021 Emissions Gap Report assessed the importance of carbon markets and found that full use of market mechanisms can enable cost savings in the order of 40-60% in 2030.
UNEP works with countries and non-state actors, supporting them with capacity building and policy development for implementation of carbon markets, and through partnerships and initiatives contributing to regional and global knowledge sharing through a South-South, science-based approach to learning.
International Carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
The aim of Article 6 international carbon markets is to allow for enhanced ambition of climate actions for implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and to promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.
Parties that have successfully met their own emissions reduction targets can sell their extra reduction credits to finance enhanced climate action. This can move investments to areas and sectors, where emissions reductions can be achieved as efficiently as possible.
Article 6 establishes an international carbon market with multilateral governance under the UNFCCC setting common global standards and guidance for development and trading in emission reductions and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes.
Expectations for the use of international carbon markets are high. In 2023, 143 of 154 Parties stated in their NDCs that they plan to or will possibly use carbon credits from cooperative approaches under Article 6 as a means to finance climate action and achieve national targets.
UNEP support/resources:
- UNEP endorses and supports the two voluntary carbon market integrity initiatives (VCMI and ICVCM) that are in the process of developing best practice requirements for independent standards and market stakeholders.
- UNEP is engaged through its UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre in several capacity building initiatives such as SPAR6C, IAAS, the Article 6 and VCM Pipeline Analysis and Database, the Sustainable Development Initiative for Article 6, and the research project Promoting transformational change through carbon markets. The Centre is currently working directly with seven partner countries.
- UNEP Finance Iinitiative and Ecosystems Division are engaged in developing guidance for nature-based solutions and voluntary carbon markets, and UNEP Regional Office in Latin America and Caribbean is working with the International Civil Aviation Organization on rule setting for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.
Highlights:
- Article 6 community meets for inaugural event (July 2023)
- Pakistan on course for emissions trading under Article 6 (June 2023)
- Article 6 community: Carbon Markets and social needs (April 2023)
- Carbon market capacity building (Feb. 2023)
Publications:
- Final Report – Promoting transformational change through carbon markets (UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, 2022)
from — Carbon Markets. (n.d.). UN Environment Programme. Retrieved January 4, 2026
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carbon
carbon noun
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Chemistry. a widely distributed element that forms organic compounds in combination with hydrogen, oxygen, etc., and that occurs in a pure state as diamond and graphite, and in an impure state as charcoal. C; 12.011; 6; (of diamond) 3.51 at 20°C; (of graphite) 2.26 at 20°C.
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carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds that are emitted into the atmosphere and cause rising temperatures.
the carbon produced by burning fossil fuels.
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a sheet of carbon paper.
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Electricity.
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the carbon rod through which current is conducted between the electrode holder and the arc in carbon arc lighting or welding.
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the rod or plate, composed in part of carbon, used in batteries.
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carbon, adj
pertaining to or noting the element carbon or any of its compounds, especially carbon dioxide.
to reduce carbon emissions.
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Carbon forms the basis for all living tissue.
Other Word Forms
- carbonless adjective
- carbonous adjective
- noncarbon noun
Etymology
Origin of carbon
1780–90; < French carbone, coinage based on Latin carbōn- (stem of carbō ) charcoal
from — Definition of carbon. (n.d.). Dictionary.com
market
market noun
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an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace.
a farmers’ market.
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a store for the sale of food.
a meat market.
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a meeting of people for selling and buying.
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the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
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trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity.
the market in cotton.
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a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity.
the cotton market.
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the field of trade or business.
the best shoes in the market.
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demand for a commodity.
an unprecedented market for leather.
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a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services.
the health-food market.
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a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used.
the foreign market; the New England market.
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current price or value.
a rising market for shoes.
market verb used without an object
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to buy or sell in a market; deal.
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to buy food and provisions for the home.
market verb used with an object
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to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.
The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.
This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.
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to carry or send to market for disposal.
to market produce every week.
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to dispose of in a market; sell.
- Synonyms:
- peddle, merchandise, vend
market idioms
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at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
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on the market, for sale; available.
Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.
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in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying.
I’m in the market for a new car.
Other Word Forms
- marketer noun
- multimarket adjective
- nonmarket noun
- premarket verb
- remarket verb (used with object)
- submarket noun
- undermarket verb (used with object)
- unmarketed adjective
- well-marketed adjective
Etymology
Origin of market
First recorded in 1100–1150; Middle English market, market(t)e, markat(t)e, late Old English market, from Vulgar Latin marcātus (assumed), from Latin mercātus “trading, traffic, market”; merchant ( def. )
from — Definition of market. (n.d.). Dictionary.com
January 4th, 2025
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This is one of the words/ phrases you can’t say in the new Trump Regime. See a comprehensive list at the Forbidden Words Project.
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The list has now expanded to 350+ words, encompassing even desirable goals like “safe drinking water,” the mention of which can now result in research grants or other agreements with the federal government getting nixed. Some agencies ordered the removal of specific words from public-facing websites or the elimination of other materials (including school curricula) in which they might be included. In other cases, federal agencies used key words to flag materials for further review or asked staff to limit or avoid their usage. In a December court filing, Head Start provided a list of nearly 200 words and phrases it told administrators to avoid.
from — Connelly, E. A. (2025, December 22). Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship. PEN America.
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