• IDEAcarbon's R20 Conference presentation

    Ian Johnson, Chairman of Carbon Ratings Agency, and Neil Eckert, Advisor to IDEAcarbon, proudly opened IDEAcarbon and the Carbon Rating Agency's panel at the 2013 R20 Conference in Vienna. Click here to read their full presentation.

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Welcome to IDEAcarbon

IDEAcarbon is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IDEAglobal Group with a mission to: (i) enable the development of Natural Capital as an asset class; (ii) establish an appropriate global price for carbon; (iii) integrate measured environmental return ratings into debt and capital markets. IDEAcarbon has benefited from the input of leaders and policymakers in capital markets who have shaped the solution framework for effective climate action. IDEAcarbon is currently working with influential stakeholders to deliver the tools that will enable companies, cities, states and international agencies to (i) value carbon and climate action comparatively and consistently, (ii) launch product solutions to effect the goals of the Paris Accord and beyond (including coins or tokens to set national tradeable carbon currencies anchored by an international carbon currency “a de-facto global carbon reserve currency”); (iii) enable credible collateralization of environmental returns for the development of the Natural Capital asset class.

Climate Finance

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Our sister company The Carbon Rating Agency has a range of products designed to empower public and private entities to scale, enable and profit from the business opportunities found within the growing field of climate finance.
 
The Carbon Rating Agency has benefited from testing its suite of climate finance products with our long established sister company IDEAglobal’s extensive network of Sovereign Wealth Funds, institutional investors and investment banks and knowledge of how these organisations consider investments in new asset classes.
 
The Carbon Rating Agency provides a suite of ratings and analytical products covering the following carbon ratings, energy efficiency ratings and indices amongst others.
 
The principal role of the CRA product suite is as an enabler of climate finance, risk sharing between public and private stakeholders and for the construction of legitimate instruments necessary for this new asset class.

Environmental Markets & Energy Commodities

Energy, Commodities and Environment Markets

Working alongside our long established sister company, IDEAglobal, we provide impartial and directional outlooks on key assets within the environmental markets and energy commodities spectrum.
 
IDEAglobal’s range of expertise in global markets, combined with our own sectoral expertise enables us to provide informed and holistic market views. IDEAglobal has nearly 25 years experience providing information and advice to more than 500 of the most significant private investors in the world – including Sovereign Wealth Funds, institutional investors and investment banks which collectively control and manage the bulk of the world’s assets.
 
Our outlooks are used by risk officers, CIOs and traders in leading public and private sector organisations.

Climate Policy

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We are privileged to have our climate finance pioneers and climate policy decision-makers on our advisory board, who have shaped, and continue to shape climate policy, both nationally and internationally, and have played a major role in putting climate and environmental markets at the top of today’s global agenda.

Our advisory board members, combined with the IDEAcarbon Policy Network, allow us to take a pro-active approach to climate policy. Our clients benefit from early policy insights, with direct benefits to their balance sheets, investor perceptions and environmental asset portfolios.

  • Climate Finance

    Climate Finance

    14 November 2011: We are pleased to announce new enhancements to the CARBONrisk platform which enable the ability to take into account project-specific past issuance... Read more
  • Environmental Markets & Energy Commodities

    Environmental Markets & Energy Commodities

    18 November 2011: Our analysis highlights clean dark spreads are hit by the weaker euro and rising coal prices, losing 2% to close at....Read more
  • Climate Policy

    Climate Policy

    19 December 2011: IDEAcarbon publishes a Research Note on COP17Read more
  • Company News

    Company News

    7 June 2011: IDEAcarbon are pleased to announce that Neil Eckert, former CEO of the Climate Exchange Plc, has joined IDEAcarbon's Advisory Board...Read more
Climate Finance

Climate Finance

14 November 2011: We are pleased to announce new enhancements to the CARBONrisk platform which enable the ability to take into account project-specific past issuance... Read more