Carbon trading
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
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…
Throwing green into the mix: how the EU Emissions Trading System impacted the energy mix of French manufacturing firms (2000–16)
This paper investigates links between environmental policy and production decisions, with a focus on firms' energy mixes.
The carbon equivalence principle: methods for project finance
A method to price the environmental impact of financial products is proposed
Voluntary carbon markets go back to basics
Fledgling market is still debating fundamental concepts, but experts remain hopeful about its ultimate utility
Podcast: the right way to wrong-way risk and climate risk in XVA
MUFG quant thinks outside the box on risk management
Carbon markets: what to watch
As carbon markets take on increased importance, Victoria White, senior associate at Allen & Overy, discusses the outlook for carbon trading, highlighting the key developments shaping these markets
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.
Revenues soar for SCB as interest in climate risk intensifies
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Carbon fund increases returns by decreasing supply of permits
Europe’s emissions trading system could be a catalyst for the energy transition, but only if prices rise
CFTC: regulators can help carbon market’s ‘credibility’ problem
Isda AGM: Behnam says commission may have a role to play in supporting growth of voluntary market
Isda broadens FRTB carbon trading study to win over sceptics
New study shows risk weights too high for US markets, but data from 2008 still missing
Emission impossible? Why voluntary offsets may not be scalable
As finance looks to shape decarbonisation in its own image, critics wonder if its efforts are misplaced
Net zero banks can lend to polluters for transition – Carney
‘Only mainstream finance’ has resources to fund companies to go green
Climate scenarios: carbon price shock sees asset prices slump
Crowdsourced scenario analysis suggests very few sectors safe from a post-COP carbon price pop
Leaked EU proposals show FRTB divergence on carbon trading
EC takes up Isda call to cut standardised risk-weight; unclear if it applies to non-EU markets
Making the cut: EU eyes Isda’s carbon trading proposals
EBA fears suggested treatment of emissions would be misaligned with rest of FRTB
Isda disputes excessive FRTB charges for carbon trading
EU carbon certificates show lower volatility and higher netting than Basel approach assumes
Addressing competitiveness of emissions-intensive and trade-exposed sectors: a review of Alberta's carbon pricing system
This paper assesses mechanisms used under the CCIR to address competitiveness-driven carbon leakage for emissions-intensive and trade-exposed sectors with a focus on Alberta’s oil and gas industry.
After Texas storm, CFTC’s Behnam renews carbon trading push
Smaller banks imperilled by economic shocks from freak weather, says acting CFTC chair
2021 brings big changes to the carbon market landscape
ZE PowerGroup Inc. explores how newly launched emissions trading systems, recently established task forces, upcoming initiatives and the new US President, Joe Biden, and his administration can further the drive towards tackling the climate crisis