New Zealand announces carbon trading scheme

(ClimateRadar.com) New Zealand announced that it was launching a new carbon trading scheme.
http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/

Carbon trading market will be $100bn by 2020

(ClimateRadar.com) According to a new report launched by Lehman Brothers, the size of the carbon trading market will be $100bn by 2020.
http://www.lehman.com/press/#0907

First Environmental fund of hedge funds launched

 
(ClimateRadar) A new fund of hedge funds is revolutionising the way the climate change industry will be financed.
https://www.rmf.ch/multimedia/news/press_articles/2007/pr050907_rmf_trading.pdf

South Africa enters carbon trading

(Mail & Guardian) Government has gone into the carbon trading business. The state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) has set up its own carbon trading operation.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=319296&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/

Voluntary offsets needs new standard

(New Values) The current plethora of standards for carbon credits in the voluntary market is due to shrink within the next year, as buyers seek consistency and clarity for evaluating carbon reductions, according to an expert panel at a carbon market conference yesterday. “While it is true that there are too many standards out there [...]

New Zealand coalition Start first online Carbon Trading platform

M-co, Trade Me and Meridian Energy are working together to bring carbon trading to New Zealand. The key to enabling carbon trading is the new M-co user-friendly carbon emission units registry called ‘Regi’, which will facilitate the first ever auction of carbon emission units in New Zealand.
http://www.regi.co.nz/regPublic/registry.mt_announcement.showannouncement?p_announcement_id=1

Natixis plans €500M carbon fund after winning carbon deal of the year

Natixis Environnement & Infrastructures (“Natixis E&I”), the investment manager of the European Carbon Fund (“ECF”), received the “Carbon Finance Transaction of the Year” Award from the Environmental Finance Magazine in September 2007 for a large coal mine CDM transaction in China, under the Clean Development Mechanism (“CDM”).
http://www.natixis.fr/nbp/vgn/portal/generator/application/pdf/0,4644,458566372-VGNMAAT-COMMUNIQUE1-TYPE_MIME_COMMUNIQUE1,00.pdf

Norway government enters carbon credit market with 200 mln nkr of funds

The Norwegian government said it will enter the carbon trading markets for the first time and has dedicated up to 200 mln nkr in funds to acquire credits this year.
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2007/09/12/afx4108517.html 

Australian businesses in dark over carbon trading

A new report shows 40 per cent of Australian companies have no understanding of emissions trading schemes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/11/2030282.htm

Japan’s voluntary scheme achieves 29% reductions

Japan’s environment ministry announced on Tuesday that under its Voluntary missions Trading Scheme, participant companies slashed their carbon ioxide (CO2) emissions by a total of 29 per cent in fiscal 2006, which ended in March this year.
http://www.pointcarbon.com/Home/News/All%20news/Kyoto%20International/Domestic%20policies/article24429-881.html