Carbon Investment Advisory

•  Carbon Portfolio Advisory
•  Consultancy and Structuring of Carbon Investment Schemes for companies subject to the
   EU Emission Trading Scheme and for investors seeking alternative investment opportunities

Investors working with First Climate benefit from its integrated approach to carbon asset management. The company is present in all major CDM/JI and VER markets. With offices on five continents and an extensive network of local partners, First Climate has a decisive advantage in procuring and developing carbon credits from projects around the world. In more than ten years in the carbon market, First Climate has developed comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment techniques and financial models to determine a project’s viability and ability to generate carbon credits.

By locating its Carbon Investment Advisory division in Luxembourg, Europe’s leading investment fund center, First Climate is able to offer investors an extraordinarily wide range of investment products, making best use of its specialist service capabilities and taking advantage of Luxembourg’s unique concentration of financial service providers. Given its long-standing relationships to licensed and reputable leaders in related industries such as PwC, Conning Asset Management, Clifford Chance and KPMG, First Climate offers its clients comprehensive and integrated solutions.

As portfolio advisor to a number of institutional mandates First Climate has developed the distinctive technical, financial and regulatory capabilities required for successful investments in the carbon credit market. First Climate prides itself in its ability to structure and manage discretionary carbon investment schemes tailored to the investor’s investment aim – be it the fulfillment of EU ETS compliance obligations or the pursuit of investment returns on alternative investments – as well as to their distinct risk profile. Both the comprehensive trading access to all markets and First Climate’s experience in setting up and managing all types of carbon credit instruments and transactions ensure its ability and flexibility in developing structured investment solutions.