carbon markets
Voluntary carbon markets house of the year: SCB Environmental Markets
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Environmental specialist amplifies its commitment to the VCM
Environmental products house of the year: Marex
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Marex Environmental spans firm to give all clients access to green markets
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…
Energy Risk Awards 2023 winner’s video: Nodal Exchange
Paul Cusenza, chairman and chief executive of Nodal Exchange – winner of the 2023 Energy Risk Commodity exchange of the year award – discusses how his firm navigated the extreme conditions of the past year and how he expects power and environmental…
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.
Energy Risk Commodity Rankings: Uncertain times
The winners of Energy Risk’s Commodity Rankings overcame some tumultuous times in 2019, learning lessons that are certainly required in today’s volatile environment
Energy Risk Commodity Rankings: the return of geopolitical risk
Geopolitical tensions introduced extreme volatility to many commodity markets in 2018, while environmental markets began to take off
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
European Parliament vote on carbon market reforms seen as bullish
Energy traders welcome reforms seen as shoring up the ailing EU carbon 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…
Carbon trading firms positive about future of EU ETS
Carbon market participants are optimistic about the future of the European Union Emissions Trading System due to solid political backing from Brussels, a survey by Energy Risk suggests
Emissions House of the Year: Element Markets
Element Markets is seeking to provide clients with help navigating the dense thicket of North American environmental commodity markets
Carbon emissions trading spreads across the globe
Traders’ enthusiasm for the European Union Emissions Trading System has slumped during recent years. But at the same time, there have been a variety of significant developments in carbon markets elsewhere around the globe. Gillian Carr rounds up some of…
Europe's carbon market begins long road to recovery
A critical July 3 vote in the European Parliament has brought the world's largest carbon market back from the brink of collapse. But participants say structural reform remains necessary to secure its future – and this is a long way off. Mark Nicholls…
Energy Risk USA: Firms optimistic about California carbon market
Energy market participants upbeat about development of California emissions market, despite legal threats