http://carbonfinancereport.com/news Daily Carbon Finance News Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:51:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. (CCX®), announced today that open interest in its futures and options complex for U.S. carbon emissions, which includes Carbon Financial Instrument® (“CFI®”) futures and options and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (‘RGGI”) futures and options contracts reached a ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/chicago-climate-futures-exchange%e2%80%99s-us-carbon-emissions-complex-sets-new-record/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/chinas-first-emission-trading-exchange-established/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/middle-east-new-frontier-for-sustainability/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/environmental-defense-fund-launches-guide-to-carbon-offsets/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/gold-standard-registry-experiences-rapid-growth-in-carbon-market-projects-and-users/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/cantorco2e-launches-first-internet-cer-auction/ Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry and trading system, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones/CCX European Carbon Index and Dow Jones/CCX Certified Emissions Reductions ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/dow-jones-ccx-european-carbon-index-and-cer-index/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/chicago-climate-futures-exchange-rggi-futures-and-options-contracts/ 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 ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/eu-ets-applications-to-participate-in-emissions-trading-auction-open/ Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE™), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated Designated Contract Market, will begin trading Friday, August 15, 2008 a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative futures and options on futures contract (RGGI futures and options), each of which represent 1,000 RGGI allowances. RGGI is a CO2 cap-and-trade emissions trading ... http://carbonfinancereport.com/news/chicago-climate-futures-exchange-offer-rggi-carbon-futures-and-options-contracts/