carbon investments explained

According to New York Times, the carbon credit market is one of the fastest growing specialties in the financial services, offering new and exciting high return low risk investment opportunites in the carbon market. For this reason and many more, CCE offers a bespoke advisory service to investors wishing to build a robust credit portfolio.

Carbon credits are fully tradable financial instruments and are measured in tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tons CO2e). Carbon credits are one of the ways including sustainable development, clean technologies, renewable energy, technology transfer, and above all personal responsibility that scientists, environmentalists, economists and our governments have agreed to employ in the battle against climate change.

Barclay's Capital anticipates that carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market with a possible potential of becoming the worlds biggest market overall. Based on this exciting news coupled with our unique bespoke services, we encourage you to register your details to obtain an introductory brochure and receive our latest market report.

If you currently have investments in stocks, bonds, or any other traditional investment instruments and are currently seeking a much safer diversification to your investment portfolio, then investment in carbon credits may be the solution for you. "Carbon Trading" is one of the fastest growing specialties in the financial services ...

With carbon prices currently sitting at €13 - €14 per tonne, a very recent quote from the Environment Audit Committee has called for the government to introduce a minimum carbon price of €100 per tonne to bolster investment. This implies that now is the right time to enter the market.

Other reasons to invest are as follows:

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Table 1.0 Global Carbon Market

Year Estimated Market Size

2005 10 Billion
2006 30 Billion
2007 60 Billion
2008 118 Billion
2009 150 Billion
2010 175 Billion (Projected)

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  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

  * Carbon credits such as Certified Emission Reductions (CER's) have risen by 23% and European Union
  Allowances (EUA's) by 22% respectively since January 2010

  * The carbon market is currently valued at €125 billion and projected to rise to €175 billion by 2011 and €3 trillion
  by 2020

  * Lower entry point carbon credits such as Voluntary Emission Reductions (VER's), are led by private sector
  investment with strong potential to outstrip the more mature compliance market of the CER's and EUA's

  * The European Union (EU), governments, and the world's largest financial institutions all agree carbon credits
  are one of the solutions in the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG's)

  * The global carbon emission level will continue to get stricter, and there will be fewer easy sources of carbon
  credits creating demand and pushing up prices

Table 1.0 shows the yearly growth of the global carbon market from 2005 - 2010. as more countries move to legislate their Emission Trading Schemes, and as more companies - just as we're seeing in the US - start to voluntarily limit their emissions, and the world moves towards global agreement on managing the environment, the price of carbon and the market size will climb as the demand rises.

As we approach COP 16 (the UN Climate Change Conference) global emission controls look set to tighten further and the price of carbon set to rise again - now is the time to secure your carbon credits before they reach 2011 projected prices of € 20 plus - source Barclays Capital.

'Buyers range from companies who want credits for green marketing purposes to speculators who are buying tonnage from us, hoping one day it will be worth 10 times more than they buy it for'

- President of project developer Infinite Earth

'The Environment Audit Committee (EAC) report is calling for the Government to introduce a minimum carbon price of €100 ($137) per tonne of CO2 to bolster investment. Currently carbon prices hover around €15 ($20) per tonne'

- Energy Efficiency News