By P. Jason Kroft and Ghazal Hamedani ( August 24, 2022, 12:58 PM EDT) -- It is difficult currently to open the daily newspaper or scroll through social media channels without seeing the words emissions trading, carbon finance, cap and trade and the carbon markets referenced within those pages. In this short introductory piece, we would like to set the stage for a series of upcoming articles by us in which we will examine, explore and critique the emerging carbon finance markets in Canada and globally. In this first piece of our series, we will introduce key concepts in carbon finance and place the carbon markets within the broader sustainable finance field. The topic is very extensive and, as a result, we cannot cover everything within the general framework of carbon financing in one single post....