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Emergence of the carbon-market intelligence sector

The newly observed economic phenomenon carbon-market intelligence was worth over £35 billion in 2010–2011 and is forecast to experience annual double-digit growth over the next five years.

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Figure 2: Top 15 countries by value for total CMI activities as a percentage compared with the normalized data for each country using their specific GDP for 2010–2011.
Figure 3: Monitoring submarket shown for the top 15 CMI countries (Fig. 2) as a percentage compared with the normalized data for each country using their specific GDP for 2010–2011.

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Maslin, M., Poessinouw, M. Emergence of the carbon-market intelligence sector. Nature Clim Change 2, 300–302 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1492

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