Carbon units as the object of civil rights
Federal Law No. 296-ФЗ on Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions dd. July 2, 2021, was adopted to implement the Paris Climate Agreement adopted at the 21st UN Conference and meant to reduce the carbon footprint. The Law introduces a new article into the stream of commerce, “carbon units”, which can be transferred to another person under a contract. Taking into consideration the novelty of this object of civil rights, the article reviews the possibility of referring carbon units to the existing objects of civil rights as per Article 128 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, proposes an approach to the legal regulation of carbon unit transfer contracts, and analyzes the possibility of circulation of carbon units at exchanges.