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Overview

CARBONfirst, IDEAcarbon’s premier strategic advice service, provides tailored intelligence about key developments in climate change policy and the evolution of the carbon markets. CARBONfirst draws upon IDEAcarbon’s network of market experts and decision makers who monitor and shape the political, regulatory and economic drivers that are moving carbon markets.

CARBONfirst's focus differs from its sister-publication, IDEAcarbon Weekly, in that CARBONfirst considers issues whose outcomes transpire over longer time spans, features content written by stakeholders, and encourages debate through hosted webinars and discussions with contributors. As such, CARBONfirst provides a different facet on the carbon markets.

Detail

The CARBONfirst service comprises:

• A monthly briefing, including market surveys, interviews with leading policy makers, policy insights and guidance on strategic positioning
• On-demand access to IDEAcarbon’s policy and market analysts
• Monthly conference calls with IDEAcarbon’s senior policy advisors and in-house analysts

IDEAcarbon maintains constant contact with key players in the climate change space, to provide clients with privileged insights into future market behaviour and the direction of the policy debate. The CARBONfirst network includes:

• Ian Johnson, Chairman of IDEAcarbon, a special advisor to the UNFCCC
• Christiana Figueres, leading UN climate negotiator and member of the IDEAcarbon Ratings Committee
• Nitin Desai, Advisor IDEAcarbon former Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs in the United Nations
• Paul Ezekiel, Advisor to IDEAcarbon and former head of Global Carbon Trading at Credit Suisse.

Use Cases

CARBONfirst subscriber profiles include:

• Investor relations: CARBONfirst informs clients on positioning and emergence of carbon as an asset class relevant to revenues and business.
• CSR: CARBONfirst informs management on emergent regulation which corporations can position themselves to address-- for the public good in the near term and for regulatory compliance over a longer horizon.
• Environmental consultancies: CARBONfirst provides context and understanding of environmental policy that goes beyond protocol-bound assessments.