Business Green: Further evidence emerged today backing up predictions that the carbon market will shrug off the worst of the economic downturn, as Point Carbon became the latest analyst firm to confirm that the global carbon market enjoyed record growth throughout 2008. According to the latest figures from the company, the global carbon market doubled in size to 92bn (US$125bn) last year, while traded volumes soared 83 per cent year-on-year to 4.9 giga tonnes of carbon. The release of the …