PROMETHEUS · EMISSIONS TRADING SIMULATOR
Carbon markets, learned by trading in one.
Prometheus is a hands-on emissions trading simulator. Run a firm, weigh abating against buying allowances, and watch a live market discover its price.
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7 India CCTS sectors·cap-and-trade + intensity modes·benchmarking / grandparenting / hybrid·multiplayer·open source
HOW IT WORKS
Five steps from cap to compliance
Every game runs the same loop a real emissions trading system does — you make the decisions, the market sets the price.
- 01
Receive your cap
Each firm starts with a compliance obligation — an absolute allowance budget under cap-and-trade, or an emissions-intensity benchmark per unit of output under an intensity-based system.
- 02
Choose abatement investments
Read your marginal abatement cost curve and decide which emission cuts are worth funding, working from the cheapest tonnes upward.
- 03
Trade allowances
Buy or sell allowances with other firms on a live order book whenever the market price diverges from your own cost of abating a tonne.
- 04
Watch prices emerge
A continuous double auction turns every firm’s decisions into a clearing price — supply and demand discovered in real time, not assumed.
- 05
Analyze the outcome
At period end, settle against your cap: surrender allowances, bank surpluses, or pay penalties — then review profits, emissions, and compliance.