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    The Market Potential
How Big Will This Market Be? The size of the carbon-trading market is difficult to determine. According to States and Trends of the Carbon Market – 2006, “The overall value of the global aggregated, carbon markets was over US$10 billion in 2005. In the first quarter of 2006, overall transactions worth US$7.5 billion had led some to predict that this new financial market would be valued at between US$25-30 billion in 2006.”The figure below gives a sense as to the explosive growth in this market:
 

Carbon Market Value 1994-2004 (million Euros)
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