Carbon asset is a digital environmental resource, which will be consumed with the production of enterprises. Under the current global tide of environmental protection and emission reduction, all countries have clear emission targets and emission reduction indicators, and the indicators at the national level will be distributed to various industries and units of national production and labor according to the needs of social and economic development.
Therefore, due to the strict control of emissions, greenhouse gas emission rights have become a digital asset with scarce properties, and its scarce properties and value will become more and more obvious due to stricter control.
As a scarce environmental resource, carbon assets also have tradable properties and can be traded in the open market. Through effective carbon asset management, enterprises can save some carbon quotas and sell them in the carbon asset trading market in exchange for economic profits. If carbon emissions are not managed properly and the quota is not enough to pay for the current emissions, it is necessary to buy an equivalent quota from the market.
From this perspective, carbon assets are similar to tradable goods and are investment-oriented. Developed foreign carbon asset markets regard carbon emission rights as financial derivatives, and build a relatively rich trading system and trading model. At this stage, China has also begun to see the regional pilot of carbon asset management. All pilot provinces and cities have carbon asset trading markets, and carbon asset funds, custody and other businesses are gradually following up, and the trading attributes of carbon assets are increasingly prominent.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Carbon Assets.