Carbon
Voluntary carbon markets house of the year: SCB Environmental Markets
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Environmental specialist amplifies its commitment to the VCM
Emissions house of the year: Grey Epoch
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Carbon trader meets clients’ increasing needs through deep expertise and ability to warehouse risk
Green knights? Banks step into struggling carbon credit markets
Clearer global standards and a new exchange may attract dealer entry, but supply and demand challenges remain
Achieving net zero with carbon offsets: best practices and what to avoid
A survey by Risk.net and ION Commodities found that firms are wary of using carbon offsets in their net-zero strategies. While this is understandable, given the reputational risk of many offset projects, it is likely to be extremely difficult and more…
Achieving net zero with carbon offsets: best practices and what to avoid
The race to net zero is on, with tens of thousands of firms now signed up to carbon reduction targets. The use of carbon offsets from voluntary and compliance markets will play a key role in helping firms reach their net-zero and decarbonisation goals…
SCB’s CEO talks biofuels, food security and the growth of voluntary carbon markets
Kevin McGeeny, founder and chief executive of SCB Group, talks with Energy Risk about his firm’s performance in this year’s Commodity Rankings and the developments he’s keeping an eye on in the biofuels and carbon markets.
How Emission Advisors saved clients over $50 million
Emission Advisers bases its business on providing mid-sized firms expert carbon trading strategies that would otherwise be unavailable to them, says Mike Taylor, the firm's founder and president. Over the past 18 months, its clients have saved over $50…
Options pricing shows next few years crucial for US coal
Carbon trading outweighed by building and fuel cost, research finds
US carbon trade surviving below the radar
As the Trump administration refuses to address climate change both at home and abroad, a growing number of states are taking the lead, but will this enthusiasm reignite US environmental trading markets?
Emissions house of the year: Element Markets
Energy Risk Awards 2018: Established environmental business flourishes despite political uncertainty
Speculators flock back into the EU carbon market
EU reforms trigger carbon rally set to last through 2018
Brexit issues for carbon market must be solved soon
UK departure from EU ETS is causing headaches for energy traders and risk managers, writes energy consultant
Emissions house of the year: BP
Energy Risk Awards 2017: Energy giant aims to shape emissions trading
European Parliament vote on carbon market reforms seen as bullish
Energy traders welcome reforms seen as shoring up the ailing EU carbon market
February seen as crunch time for the EU ETS
Carbon price could soar by 2020, but traders bearish short-term as EU votes on final package
Carbon life force: derivatives defy coal's bleak future
Coal producers shorting volatility to collect premium, say traders
Brexit roils UK electricity firms’ carbon hedging plans
Utilities may unwind hedges amid uncertainty over EU emissions market
Ex-Goldman coal veteran builds ‘customer-focused’ trading firm
Javelin Global Commodities CEO sees opportunities amid bank retreat from physical markets
The UK carbon floor and power plant hedging
How to calculate expected future carbon costs and optimal valuation and hedging decisions, by adjusting Monte Carlo simulations for the UK market
Emissions house of the year: CF Partners
Specialist knowledge of the carbon market is crucial to the London-based company's success
Asian emissions markets seen as step in right direction
Hopes that carbon emissions might one day emerge as the next major commodity market have been confounded by poor liquidity in Europe and the lack of a federal US cap-and-trade scheme. But developments in some Asian countries are giving traders more to…