Campus carbon neutrality 11, 1997 and put into practice on February 16, 2005. The protocol targets industrialized countries because they are the ones producing most of the greenhouse gases. Specific chemicals that it wants to reduce are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, Sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons. Thirty-seven industrialized countries and parts of Europe have signed and are bound by the agreement. The United States is not one of them. The Kyoto Protocol allots a specific amount of greenhouse gas emissions that each country can produce, however, countries can also trade emissions with other countries, resulting in the cap and trade system. If
Chicago Climate Exchange were intended to still be facilitated. Until July 2010, CCX was operated by the public company Climate Exchange PLC, which also owned the European Climate Exchange. Richard Sandor, creator of the Sustainable Performance Group, founded the exchange and has been a spokesman for it. The exchange traded in emissions of six gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons, and hydrofluorocarbons. CCX started trading in October 2003, prior to the commencement of trading in the European Union through the ETS system. IntercontinentalExchange (), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced in