Carbon
New registry will guarantee carbon offset credits
Caisse des Dépôts, a AAA-rated financial security centre, has launched a Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) registry for the voluntary carbon emissions offset market.
Spectron brokers first California carbon option
Spectron Environmental, the environmental products division of commodities brokerage Spectron, has brokered the first cleared Californian carbon option.
US government to consider cap-and-trade legislation this year
Imminent draft climate change legislation could include a federal cap-and-trade scheme for CO2 emissions, but questions remain regarding market regulation, finds Pauline McCallion
Special Report Carbon Trading - Africa CDM - Africa's green potential
Home to only 2% of the world's CDM projects, Africa is lagging way behind countries such as India, China and Brazil. Katie Holliday looks at why this is and asks whether there is now investment potential in the African CDM market
Special Report Carbon Trading - US carbon market policy play
Carbon trading is gaining renewed support from the new US administration, but at the same time, it must contend with recession. Pauline McCallion discusses the outlook for current trading schemes and their likely interaction with any federal compliance…
Interview - Forward market thinking
Richard Sandor, chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Climate Exchange, pioneered the first ever emissions trading scheme in the late 1980s for acid rain, drawing on his experience in launching interest rate futures 20 years earlier. He…
Special Report Carbon Trading - Australia's CPRS getting to the start line
Australia is set to introduce a national emissions trading scheme in 2010. However, there is still much uncertainty surrounding the scheme. Katie Holliday looks at how companies are preparing for it
Carbon Capture - Going underground
Carbon capture and storage has been put forward as a viable option for keeping coal-fired power firmly on the energy agenda. Pauline McCallion finds out what stands in the way of this part of the climate change solution
Brokerage launches environmental arm
Phoenix Partners Group, an interdealer credit and equity derivatives broker, has launched an environmental brokerage service for the worldwide renewable energy and emissions markets.
Obama calls for economy-wide carbon cap
President Barack Obama has indicated that the administration will work with Congress on cap-and-trade legislation in an effort to increase US energy independence.
Global carbon trading to grow by 20% in 2009
The global carbon market will see a 20% boost in volume in 2009, according to the latest figures from Point Carbon.
JI finally accredits first third party verifier
The Kyoto Protocol's Joint Implementation (JI) mechanism has accredited its first third party verifier, TÜV SÜD Industrie Service, almost ten years after the UN-backed carbon offsetting mechanism was first agreed upon.
BarCap executes RGGI forward trade agreement
Barclays Capital today executed its first transactions on a forward trade agreement that includes provisions for US emissions allowances associated with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first mandatory carbon cap-and-trade program in…
DNV suspension lifted
A major player in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) markets has been allowed to resume validating projects, the United Nations (UN) CDM Executive Board (EB) has announced.
US legislators to move on cap and trade before June
Draft climate change legislation will be presented to the US House of Representatives by Monday 25 May 2009, according to Representative Edward Markey, chair of the House Energy and Environmental subcommittee.
Aviation industry calls for inclusion in Copenhagen deal
Four of the world's leading airlines have today called for carbon dioxide emissions from international aviation to be included in any new global climate change deal agreed at the UN's Copenhagen Summit in December.
AAUs: hot commodity or just hot air?
A recent flurry of deals for government-level carbon credits has increased interest in the potential for the AAU market. Roderick Bruce investigates