Archive for October, 2005

CET Blogs

5th 2005f October, 2005, Peter

There don’t seem to be many other weblogs in the blogosphere devoted to Carbon Emissions Trading. The only two we’ve found so far are:

Carbon Trading
Emissions Trading

Both these are written by Carbon Traders, and both have interesting insights. But both blogs seem to be inactive at the moment. We seem to be the only blog [...]

Weather Insurance

3rd 2005f October, 2005, Peter

The Economist magazine this week has an article on hedging against the weather and against catastrophic events: Natural hedge: Interest grows in financial instruments to offset swings in the weather, The Economist, 2005-09-29. (Subscription may be required).
Two types of contracts are described:

Weather derivatives, used by companies to counteract the financial effects of [...]

Welcome!

1st 2005f October, 2005, Jez

This blog has been created to provide a formal home for our thoughts on Carbon Emissions Trading in Europe.
It also allows you, the emitter / trader / interested passer-by, to share your views on the topics we discuss.
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