Developers of emission reduction projects in Latin America are beginning to move away from the UN regulated market and are eyeing voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) as a way to avoid complex project approval processes on the...

Hamburg, Germany-based Aquila Capital Concepts, a $1.8 billion hedge fund shop, last month launched a hedge fund focused on the shipping sector and is readying another fund focused on trading carbon emissions for November.

Failure by host countries to speed up the project approval process is holding back the Kyoto protocol’s joint implementation (JI) mechanism and causing investors to look elsewhere for carbon credits, market sources have warned.

US federal cap-and-trade plans for greenhouse gases currently being debated in Congress must include regulations for the use of offset credits, the US Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) said today in a policy paper.

The price of carbon allowances for the second phase of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme, which runs from 2008 to 2012, has fallen to less than €20 from a late-May peak of €25.

There seems to be ever growing market demand for carbon-neutral services in the United States. But questions linger that, with voluntary carbon offsets under attack, America's fledgling market can deliver the kinds of...

The CO2 market has seen considerable erosion in the value of European Emission Allowances (“EUA”) over the last couple of weeks. While EUA were traded at levels far above of 22 EUR/t (with a peak at 26.00 EUR/t on 30/05/2007),...

Chile se ha posicionado como una plaza atractiva en el mercado de los bonos de carbono. Es el cuarto oferente y el tercero más confiable en este tipo de transacctiones an el mundo... Por primera vet, el medio ambiente parece...

Germany is to auction nearly 40 million mt of EU emissions Allowances each year during Phase 2 of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (2008-12), a government official said Wednesday.

Germany should sell CO2 allowances into the market via a third party instead of auctioning them in order to avoid delays and price distortions, according to carbon market consultancy 3C Group.