Research and Markets: Green Quadrant: Emissions Trading Exchanges Assessed and Compared Helps Climate Change Decision Makers

Business Wire, May 6, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90957) has announced the addition of "Green Quadrant: Emissions Trading Exchanges Assessed And Compared" to their offering.

The global emissions market has grown from nothing in 2004 to a market with traded volume worth about EU25 billion in 2007 according to Barclays Capital. This rapid development has seen a raft of product launches, partnerships, acquisitions and investments by leading commodities and derivatives exchanges. Over the next 2 years the complexity will increase as more exchanges spring up around the world and additional climate-change linked derivatives such as disaster and weather risk are traded

How You Benefit

This report helps climate change decision makers in corporates and government, and carbon markets advisers in professional services firms to understand the current state of the seven leading emissions trading exchanges. Based on interviews with carbon market participants and detailed analysis of each trading exchange, this report compares and characterizes 7 emissions trading exchanges. Across 23 evaluation criteria, the comparison provides rich data on service offerings, market momentum, range of contracts, technology platform, market share and future strategy.

WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EMISSIONS TRADING EXCHANGES

The Price Of Carbon Will Impact Financial Performance

Identify Potential Opportunities From Emissions Trading

Understand The End-To-End Emissions Reduction Value Chain

Bet On Winning Emissions Exchanges - Not The Losers

MARKET OVERVIEW

Introduction

Market Definition

What's Driving The Growth In Emissions Trading?

Europe's Emissions Trading Boom: The Facts

GREEN QUADRANT FOR EMISSIONS TRADING EXCHANGES

Evaluated Firms

Evaluation Criteria

Explaining The Verdantix Green Quadrant Methodology

Emissions Trading Exchanges Assessed And Compared

How To Use The Verdantix Green Quadrant

EXCHANGE PROFILES

Bluenext

Climex

European Energy Exchange (EEX)

European Climate Exchange / ICE Futures Europe

Green Exchange

National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX)

Nord Pool / OMX

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90957