Observing The Presidential Candidates Reveals The Next Green Trend
As painful as it may be, following politics can aid you in discovering trends. Politicians help form our future, and knowing their tendencies and beliefs can help you predict that future.
Back in June, I wrote about how both presidential candidates support stem cell research, all but guaranteeing a boom in popularity of the controversial research. There is another trend that they both support: carbon/emission caps.
Carbon caps allow for what is called emissions trading: the trading of carbon credits. Much of the developed world already does this. The U.S. does not.
Yet.
Since our next president will be either McCain or Obama, the likelihood of this happening in the U.S. is quite high. We may even join the Kyoto Protocol.
This niche is loaded with keywords, mostly centered around the word ‘carbon.’ It’s only a matter of time before these words become everyday vocabulary in the U.S.:
- Emissions Trading
- Carbon Trading
- Carbon Footprint
- Carbon Credit
- Carbon Project
- Carbon Finance
- Carbon Offsetting
- Carbon Tax
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
- Certified Emissions Reductions (CER)
Carbon Credit is the term that I think will hit the biggest.
To put it quite short and simple: companies are allotted a certain amount of carbon emissions; let’s say 100 carbon credits to make this example easy. If Comcast “uses up” only 78 of those 100 carbon credits, they can “sell off” the remaining 22. Now if Exxon uses 114 carbon credits, they will be penalized/taxed for going over the 100 limit. However, they can avoid the penalty by purchasing carbon credits from Comcast to bring their total back down to 100.
The idea is to encourage companies to improve their carbon footprint and make money by selling off those surplus carbon credits.
Like I said, other countries already do this. But like anything else, once it hits the States, it will be huge.
Both Presidential Candidates Agree On Controversial Research
This is not a political post. I want to stay away from politics, unless it’s directly related to domaining… which this is.
Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on too many things. But there is a controversial topic- one that the two parties have fought over previously- that these two upcoming candidates mostly agree on and could spell a big boom for the medical industry in many different ways.
That would be stem cells.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain support federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, each voting in favor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which ultimately was vetoed.
Barring a catastrophe, we’re going to see one of these two as the next U.S. President, and you can bet that a new bill will be written for the winner to sign.
Stem cell related keywords will be big, as will the resulting medical discoveries of such research. As a domainer, keep an eye out on related breakthrough news and be hasty registering those names.