EU could shut the window on the carbon market
Will investors clean up? Société Générale, which has an emissions trading joint venture with French chemicals company Rhodia called Orbeo, recently launched the SGI-Orbeo Carbon Credit Index and the SGI Global Carbon Index.
The SGI-Orbeo Carbon Credit Index tracks the performance of carbon in the carbon market by looking at both EUAs and CERs, and the SGI Global Carbon Index aims to capture the performance of the top 30 stocks issued by companies whose operations have the lowest carbon intensity among the most heavily impacted sectors, including transport, energy, utilities, capital goods and materials.
It is hard to find a purer play on the global warming theme than the UBS Global Warming Index, which provides direct exposure to global warming through weather derivatives.
This April Merrill Lynch broke new ground in the carbon credits business by completing the first independently validated, commercially financed...
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