Carbon Market

Chicago exchanges head for green war over carbon emissions

July 23, 2009

| Sourced From Pionline.com |
Green may be the hue of environmentalism, but it’s still the color of money to the Chicago futures exchanges vying for control of the nascent trading market in carbon emission credits.
CME Group Inc., the world’s largest futures exchange, and the Chicago Climate Exchange, led by Richard Sandor, inventor of bond futures, [...]

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Weekly CDM and VER market summary – 13-19 July 2009

July 22, 2009

| Sourced From Businessgreen.com |
VER trading remains consistent with demand continuing to centre on recent vintage, issued RE VCUs.
Exotic credits from SE Asia, South America and Africa are commanding $1–1.50 premiums at $4-5 bid/offered, while standard RE China and India VCS offsets are trading at $2.50-3.50 levels.
REDD forestry projects are drawing renewed interest following the [...]

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Fortifying the Foundation: 2009 Report

July 21, 2009

| Sourced From CarbonCatalog.org |
As in the two previous years, Ecosystem Marketplace http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/
and New Carbon Finance http://www.newcarbonfinance.com/ have released their annual report on the state of the voluntary carbon markets.
The document, subtitled Fortifying the Foundation, is based on the reported activity during 2008 of 182 developers, aggregators, brokers and retailers of voluntary carbon credits.
For [...]

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Research and Markets: Carbon Dioxide Monitors – a Global Strategic Business Report for Carbon Dioxide Monitors in Millions of US$

July 21, 2009

| Sourced From Businesswire.com |
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/453a9f/carbon_dioxide_mon) has announced the addition of the “Carbon Dioxide Monitors – Global Strategic Business Report” report to their offering.
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Carbon Dioxide Monitors in Millions of US$ by the following segments: End-tidal Carbon Dioxide (EtCO2) Monitors, and Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide (tcpCO2) Monitors. [...]

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Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets

July 19, 2009

| Sourced From OffsetQualityInitiative.org |
OQI Publishes Brief, “Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets”
The World Resources Institute Analyzes Offset Quality in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
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http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Web.pdf
Read Executive Summary
http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Exec%20Sum%20Web.pdf

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UPDATE 1-Netherlands acts on tax fraud in carbon market

July 17, 2009

| Sourced From Forexyard.com |
(Updates with EU Commission comment)
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) – There are “clear indications” of fraudulent activity in the Dutch carbon emissions market, the Dutch ministry of finance said regarding its decision on Tuesday to take steps to prevent value-added tax (VAT) fraud.
“Specifically carousel fraud, where the booked turnover tax is not [...]

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EU carbon reform proposals no threat to China: official

July 15, 2009

BEIJING (Reuters) – Proposals by the European Union to tighten a U.N.-run global carbon offsetting regime will help China rather than hinder it, a policy official with the European Commission said.
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EU, U.S. interested in carbon trading links-Sweden

July 10, 2009

| Sourced From Forexyard.com |
L’AQUILA, Italy, July 8 (Reuters) – The United States and the European Union are interested in exploring ways to link carbon trading markets, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Wednesday after talks with U.S. President Barack Obama.
“I had a discussion with President Obama on the U.S. cap and trade system [...]

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US carbon bill a boon for world offsets market

July 9, 2009

| Source From Carbonpositive.net |
The US cap and trade bill currently stands to deliver a huge stimulus to the clean energy and forest carbon sectors in North America and in the developing world. Whatever final form the scheme takes, it will produce the world’s biggest single carbon market from 2012, eclipsing the EU ETS. And [...]