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Bilateral Carbon Quota Trade

Interactive 3D simulation of two companies with different emission-abatement costs trading carbon quotas directly with each other: watch the cheap abater sell surplus allowances to the costly one, and see how much total abatement cost the direct trade saves versus each company meeting its own cap alone.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS

Carbon markets are usually shown as one anonymous clearing price for thousands of participants. This simulation zooms into the single deal that actually happens underneath: two named companies with different costs of cutting emissions, trading quota directly. Adjust each company's abatement-cost steepness and free allocation, then compare the total cost of hitting the same combined cap with trading allowed versus each company going it alone — the gap is the reason bilateral carbon trading exists at all.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D simulation of two companies with different emission-abatement costs trading carbon quotas directly with each other: the cheap abater sells surplus allowances to the costly one, and the total abatement cost with trading is compared against each company meeting its own cap alone.

Three.jscarbon tradingeconomicscap-and-tradeclimate policy

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install