Carbon market associations join forces
A merger between the Carbon Markets Association (CMA) and International Carbon Investors (ICI) has brought together 60 banks, law firms and service providers that work within the carbon market, including Barclays Capital, JP Morgan and RBS Sempra.
The newly formed Carbon Markets Investors Association (CMIA) plans to offer its combined insights at UN talks on global climate change in Copenhagen in 2009. "Together the member companies now forming CMIA handled three quarters of the transactions in
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