Sentences with phrase «european credit trades»

And European credit trades at similar spreads as U.S. or Asian counterparts, despite generally better fundamentals.

Not exact matches

Belden, Hylant: Although US companies are increasingly buying trade credit insurance, they still remain far behind their European counterparts

If the effects of the European emissions trading scheme (ETS)- which gives industries pollution credits to use or sell - are included, this reduction would be 23.6 per cent.

Certified Emissions Reduction credits (CERs) produced by the UN's Clean Development Mechanism; European Union Allowances (EUAs) produced by the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), and Emissions Reduction Units (ERUs) produced by the UN's Joint Implementation mechanism.

Since the Kyoto protocol came into force in 2005, companies in the developing world can generate greenhouse gas emission reductions and sell them as «carbon credits» in the developed world through such mechanisms as the European Union's Environmental Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which is similar to schemes in Japan and New Zealand.

The CDM awards successfully registered projects Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), credits that can be sold to governments or into the European Union's carbon cap - and - trade program.

The trading of any commodity — whether wheat, pork bellies or renewable energy credits — is essentially the same, but it helps to have an understanding of the reality behind the abstract: the color - coded blinking numbers on a broker's multiple computer screens that reflect current prices in a spread of different regional carbon markets, like the European Carbon Exchange.

For now, the European emissions trading system has emerged as the core of a nascent global market because it features the strongest institutions and exchanges the greatest volume of credits.

CERs are the most heavily traded carbon offset credit in the world, used mostly by European companies to keep their greenhouse gas emissions levels beneath a government - mandated cap.

Member states will allocate emissions credits, much like was done in the European Union's carbon trading program, and trade between one another.

The objective is for the CGYs to be recognized as equivalent to the carbon offsets now traded under the European Trading System (ETS), EU Member States and companies operating under the EU ETS would purchase and trade the CGY credits as they do other GHG allowance credits.

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The index currently includes two carbon - related credit plans: European Union Emission Trading Scheme or EU ETS Phase II and Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.

But a paper prepared by officials from the European Commission trade department says export credits, or preferential loans to help cover exports costs, should be continued for the most modern coal plant technology.

However, worried about the verifiability and permanency of carbon dioxide stored in trees, the European Union does not allow credits generated that way to be traded in its emissions trading scheme.

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Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Utrading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UTrading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

By 2011, the European Union plans to require airlines to join the region's emissions - trading system that would cap carriers» output of carbon dioxide and other pollutants and force them to buy credits if they went over the limit.

In Europe, legislation forces companies / governments to adhere to emissions reductions targets which artificially supports trading and the price of credits on the European Climate Exchange.

These massive failings led Carbon Trade Watch and 120 other groups to note that «The use of offset projects has resulted in an increase of emissions worldwide... and has brought severe social and environmental consequences to communities where the offset projects are implemented, together with communities living next to the industrial facilities that buy the credits» and to call on Europe to scrap the European Emissions Trading System.

For example, credits on voluntary markets like the Chicago Climate Exchange currently trade at an 80 - 90 percent discount to the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

A bigger question is just how much the European Union's decision to disallow, as of next year, the waste gas credits in its immense carbon trading system will decrease their value.

Disgusted with the payments, the European Union has announced that as of next year it will no longer accept the so - called waste gas credits from companies in its carbon trading system — by far the largest in the world — essentially declaring them counterfeit currency.

Although, according to Terry Barker of the University of Cambridge, it could also lead to a collapse of the European emissions trading scheme as declining demand for electricity leads to a plummeting price for emissions credits.

On Tuesday the European Parliament's 748 MEPs will vote on whether to withhold more than 900m carbon credits from the next phase of its emissions trading scheme (ETS).

In response, the European Emissions Trading Scheme — the world's largest carbon market — banned the trade of HFC - 23 credits as of May 1, 2013.

Due to concerns about the «non-additionality, environmental merit, cost - effectiveness and competitive distortions of HFC - 23 credits» the European Union agreed to ban the use of HFC - 23 credits from the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) starting in 2013.

Controversy over the Chinese dams recently led the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the world's leading market for trading carbon credits, to renew its ban on large hydropower Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), which are carbon credits issued by the CDM executive board.

If forest credits are also sold into the markets, as proponents hope, it will swamp supply and crash the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme to the level of Chicago's: around zero.

From January 1, all airlines landing in the European Union will have to participate in the emission trading program, purchasing credits for all their carbon emissions.

Similar to other polluting industries within the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, airlines will be required to reduce their emissions or offset excess emissions by purchasing additional credits or investing in international climate protection projects.

After getting off to a slow start — at first, European governments set the carbon caps so high that many power companies were profiting from the credits without having to cut their emissions — the trade started to balloon suspiciously late last year.

Representing a European Bank over many years in a series of interbank disputes arising from the conduct, execution and settlement of derivative transactions, including, interest rates swaps, currency swaps, bonds and repo trades on Eurex, OTC options, credit default swaps, and an Argentinian MTN programme.