First-in-the Nation Auction a Success as all Allowances Sold at a Clearing Price of $3.07
(NEW YORK, NY) – The states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) today announced that the auctioning of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances in North America is off to a strong start. All of the 12,565,387 allowances offered for [...]

The Chicago Climate Exchange has notified the University of Iowa that it reduced its carbon dioxide emissions in 2007 by almost 18 percent more than was required by its agreement with the exchange.
UI was legally bound to emit no more than 264,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2007 to satisfy the emissions reduction required [...]

(Chicago – August 14, 2008) Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE™), a
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated Designated Contract Market,
will begin trading Friday, August 15, 2008 a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative futures
and options on futures contract (RGGI futures and options), each of which represent
1,000 RGGI allowances.
RGGI is a CO2 cap-and-trade emissions trading program comprised of ten [...]

The Offset Quality Initiative (OQI) will release a white paper in San Diego at a briefing to be held before the opening of the Western Climate Initiative stakeholder meeting.

Is a cap-and-trade program effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Now new doubts have been raised about systems that allow companies to buy carbon emission credits if they exceed their caps. New technology may be more valuable.

he Montréal Climate Exchange (MCeX), a joint venture of the Montréal Exchange (MX) and the Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX), today officially launched trading of a new futures contract on Canada carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) units.

By EAMON JAVERS | 5/14/08
The presidential primary campaigns are already driving price fluctuations in one niche financial market, and some experts believe this fall’s general election battle will affect prices in sectors as diverse as health care and defense.

For Wall Street traders, that may mean it’s time to flip from CNBC’s “Mad Money” to MSNBC’s [...]

By Alex Morales
May 29 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations is considering a new type of bond that would spur investment in clean-energy projects in the developing world. The so-called climate bonds would be sold to investors by developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Yvo de Boer, the UN’s top climate-change official, said in [...]