Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com

It hasn’t garnered much attention outside the U.K., but every investor should know that all publicly-trade companies in Great Britain likely will be required to detail their carbon emissions in their annual reports. www.independent.co.uk

In a statement likely to be echoed soon throughout the world, one British environmental activist said, “We want government to make environmental reporting mandatory, not voluntary.”

Thus does the curtain start to go up on a global carbon trading market.

Until Monday.