The impetus for the financing of renewable energy projects turns increasingly on the growing global concern for controlling climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. The degree to which carbon trading will play a meaningful role in global renewable energy project development is still uncertain.

A latticework of different legal regimes underpins the monetization of carbon reductions, driving the value of the carbon and influencing trade in low-carbon technologies including renewable energy. Yet the globalization of this trade among less and more industrialized countries is immature.  Our panel illuminates how the legal inter-relationships among the practical commercial and policy issues will determine whether the transition from rhetoric to reality is achieved in an effective manner.  The panel will discuss markets, facilitation & regulation and finance.