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Weather hedges

6th 2008f October, 2008, Peter

CelsiusPro is offering insurance against the weather.  For example, the Hot Day certificate “pays out a pre-defined amount for every day the daily average temperature is above your specified level.”   Weather risk management is provided by SwissRe.
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Kyoto Emissions Market Is 17% Oversupplied

2nd 2008f October, 2008, Jon

57.8 billion CO2 tonnes of Assigned Amount Unit Credits have been assigned to the 38 industrialised nations under the Kyoto Protocol for the period until 2012. Expected emissions however will be around 49.5 billion tonnes, according to Point Carbon.
We were assured this would not be the case following the failure of the carbon market in [...]

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