WebConnect

24 March 2009

IDEAcarbon launches a “Partner Programme” for the first comprehensive online calendar for the carbon markets: enabling investors and policy makers to stay abreast of and anticipate key factors shaping emissions markets.

IDEAcarbon today launched a partnership programme for its Carbon Calendar to enable carbon market participants to track and analyse the key events that shape the regulatory changes and other events likely to influence the global emissions market. The IDEAcarbon Carbon CalendarTM was launched today in cooperation with the Thomson Reuters’ Carbon Market Community, the London Energy Brokers Association, reegle.info and Carbon Yatra who will carry the calendar on their websites. The IDEAcarbon Carbon CalendarTM was first introduced in December 2007 for government, financial and compliance clients of IDEAcarbon services.

Announcing the launch of the partnership programme, Shandi Modi, CEO of IDEAcarbon said “the Carbon Calendar is the first calendar of factors which our editorial team believes will likely shape expectations in the emissions markets. We expect the Carbon Calendar will provide a valuable resource to serious professional participants, observers, and policy makers in the climate change and emissions markets. We believe that it will become an indispensable tool to the clients of our partner companies”.

Responding to the launch Stefan Reichenbach, Global Head of Environmental Markets at Thomson Reuters said “the IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar covers the events that move the markets and explains their significance for Thomson Reuters Carbon Market Community website users.”

The IDEAcarbon Carbon CalendarTM is updated on partner websites and covers three key event categories:

• Regulatory, legislative and negotiating events including CDM Executive Board and JISC meetings, the EU regulatory schedule, US regional trading scheme launch dates and UNFCCC negotiations;
• Market events, contract expiry dates and auctions;
• Conferences, workshops and seminars in all major cities.

Two levels of information are provided by the Carbon Calendar. The standard Carbon Calendar provides an overview of each key event. Further analysis of major events, before and after they occur, is provided to premium Calendar subscribers.

IDEACarbon’s Partner Programme is available to any qualifying media, exchange, corporate, or policy community which addresses climate change issues and emissions markets in general, globally.

Additionally, IDEACarbon partners can also distribute the IDEAcarbon pCER Index, which is designed to give market participants visibility into the opaque market for primary CERs. Unlike the markets for secondary guaranteed and issued CERs, there is no liquid trading platform for primary CERs, and prices vary widely around the world and across technologies. Each CDM project comes with its own particular cocktail of risk elements, meaning that there are potentially as many pCER prices as there are CDM projects. The IDEAcarbon pCER Index was inaugurated in April 2008.

Please contact info@ideacarbon.com, for further information on how to incorporate the Carbon Calendar or IDEAcarbon’s primary CER Index on your web site.

Users quotes

Henry Derwent, President IET

"Carbon market participants are always seeking to gain clarity given the evolving nature of the market. The IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar provides the critical events for the carbon market and explain their significance, while the IDEAcarbon pCER Index provides an understanding of the price dynamics in the primary CER market"

Sascha Bloemhoff Climex

“Climex is encouraged by IDEAcarbon’s efforts in offering their innovative and useful tools, Carbon Calendar and pCER price index as information dissemination to the carbon market is important to achieve transparency. Our members will find them quite useful as they offer comprehensive access to all the important globally held carbon events and key developments on the price dynamics in the primary market, which many of our members do not have access to.”

Takashi Hongo JBIC

"I always look forward to IDEAcarbon in terms of their increasingly innovative approach to provide useful carbon information to the carbon market. The Carbon Calendar and pCER survey is a set of another leading efforts by IDEAcarbon and I am extremely pleased for its introduction to the Japanese Carbon Market. Our association with IDEAcarbon has always been valuable."

Brian Guzzone Ameresco

“I'm a member of the IDEAcarbon community and wish to thank you for distributing these free resources. Both are very informative and I encourage you to continue to make these offering available to the carbon community”

Partners quotes

Alban Brindle, COO, London Energy Brokers Association

‘LEBA is keen to ensure an ongoing improvement in standards in financial markets and the IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar helps to increase transparency and research standards for carbon market players’

Florian Bauer reegle.info

‘The IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of events that are important to the carbon market, thanks to IDEAcarbon team of knowledge experts. reegle.info users will benefit from this tool that adds transparency to the carbon market’

Kishore Butani carbonyatra

“We are happy to be associated with IDEAcarbon in hosting the Carbon Calendar and pCER Index developed by IDEAcarbon as it will certainly help the Indian carbon market to update on the international developments. These tools will assist the project developers in executing their transactions based on well informed decisions”

About IDEAcarbon

IDEAcarbon is an independent and professional provider of ratings, research and strategic advice on carbon finance. Its services are designed to provide leading financial institutions, corporations, governments, traders and developers with intelligence and analysis of the factors that affect the pricing of carbon market assets.

The IDEAcarbon team are leading experts in the carbon and energy markets. They combine policy and financial intelligence with proprietary tools for the analysis of credit risk. Their techniques assist their clients to manage and mitigate risk in today's uncertain global carbon markets.

For more information please visit: www.ideacarbon.com.

About the Carbon Rating Agency

The Carbon Ratings Agency is a wholly owned subsidiary of IDEAcarbon. Its mission is to improve the functioning and efficiency of the carbon markets. The Carbon Rating Agency's ratings and opinions are unencumbered and independent - it does not trade, buy, sell or originate carbon credits.

Further details of the Carbon Rating Agency’s approach to rating carbon assets are available at www.carbonratingsagency.com.

Media Contacts:

Mike Gallagher +44 20 7664 0203 mgallagher@carbonratingsagency.com.

Disclaimer:

All information contained herein has been obtained by the Carbon Ratings Agency from sources believed by it to be accurate and reasonable. Although reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information herein is true, such information is provided ‘as is’ without any warranty of any kind, and the Carbon Ratings Agency in particular, makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any such information. All information contained herein must be construed solely as statements of opinion, and the Carbon Ratings Agency.