China’s First Emission Trading Exchange Established
China’s first comprehensive emissions trading exchange was set up in Tianjin Binhai New Area on September 25.
The Exchange was jointly established by CNPC Assets Management Co., an affiliate of China National Petroleum Corp., Tianjin Property Rights Exchange and the Chicago Climate Exchange, each taking 53 percent, 22 percent and 25 percent stake in the exchange. [...]
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 [...]
Environmental Defense Fund Launches Guide to Carbon Offsets
New Website Takes the Guesswork out of Identifying and Purchasing Carbon Offsets in Growing Voluntary Market
WASHINGTON, DC - September 10, 2008 - To help bring transparency to the fast-growing voluntary carbon offset market to combat climate change, Environmental Defense Fund today announced the launch of CarbonOffsetList.org, a first-of-its-kind online resource that will help businesses 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 [...]
ICIS Heren Launches Extended Emissions Coverage
ICIS Heren, a world-leading publisher of gas, power and carbon market information, is pleased to announce the expansion of our European Daily Carbon Markets (EDCM) report, which provides in-depth coverage of the European emissions market.
European Daily Carbon Markets provides a daily snapshot of the European emissions arena. The report contains over-the-counter (OTC) price assessments, carbon [...]
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 [...]
China’s Carbon Market
Carbon market growth supporting sustainable energy in China but additionality concerns persist (21 Jul 2008)
A new study, ‘The Value of Carbon in China’, commissioned by WWF Hong Kong, provides fresh insights into the growing value of carbon finance to the Chinese sustainable energy market. With over 1000 projects across 15 project types and an estimated [...]
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, [...]