Middle East: New frontier for sustainability
Eight months after world leaders met in Bali to chart the course to a low-carbon world, green initiative like carbon trading are gaining ground in a region long associated with Big Oil. The World Carbon Emission Reduction Summit in Abu Dhabi, unthinkable until recently, now attracts international heavyweights such as the World Bank, UNFCCC and [...]
Gold Standard Registry Experiences Rapid Growth in Carbon Market Projects and Users
APX Market System Tops Two Hundred Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects
APX, Inc., the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets and the Gold Standard Foundation today announced that the Gold Standard Registry now includes more than 200 valid greenhouse gas reduction projects in various stages of approval, representing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in [...]
CantorCO2e Launches First Internet CER Auction
CantorCO2e Limited announced today that it has launched an electronic internet-accessed auction platform for the sale and purchase of issued Certified Emission Reductions (CERs). The new service was unveiled today to an audience of the leading emission trading participants from Europe, Japan and the US; including banks, energy utilities and hedge funds; at the Park [...]
Chicago Climate Futures Exchange RGGI Futures And Options Contracts
Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE™), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Designated Contract Market, announces the successful launch of RGGI Futures and Options contracts.
On August 15 CCFE traded 60 RGGI Futures contracts (60,000 RGGI allowances) and 10 RGGI Options contracts (10,000 RGGI allowances), marking the first exchange traded transactions in the first mandatory, U.S. based [...]
EU ETS | Applications to participate in emissions trading auction open
Organisations can now apply to become Primary Participants in the UK’s auctions for Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Primary Participants can bid directly for allowances and will act as intermediaries in the competitive element of the auctions, collecting and submitting bids on behalf of indirect bidders who wish to take part in [...]
iPath Global Carbon ETN
Barclays Lists New iPath(R) ETNs on NYSE Arca, the Largest Exchange in ETF
and ETN Listings and Assets Under Management
- First ETN linked to carbon trades on NYSE Arca -
NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the launch of 11 new Barclays
iPath(R) Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) on NYSE Arca, including the
first ETN linked to carbon. ETFs and ETNs [...]
RBC Capital Markets announces Carbon Trading
TORONTO, NEW YORK and LONDON, July 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — RBC Capital Markets today announced its global capabilities for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trading:
- RBC Capital Markets is a General Clearing member and market maker on
exchanges around the world, [...]
Carbon Market Surges in H1 2008
Global Carbon Market Worth $59 bn USD in H1 2008, Up $34 bn USD on H1 2007 and Bucking Global Economic Gloom
EU ETS dominates with 70% of global carbon transactions, worth $47 bn USD (€30bn)
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The global carbon market has generated almost as much money in the [...]
Cemtrex Joins Chicago Climate Exchange
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cemtrex Inc. (OTC:
CTEI) has become an associate member of the Chicago Climate Exchange
(CCX(R)), the world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally
binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry and trading
system.
CCX is a financial institution whose objectives are to apply financial
innovation and incentives to advance social, environmental and economic
goals. CCX [...]