Jun

29

CME Group Announces the Launch of New Sulfur Dioxide Futures and Options Contracts

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CME Group, the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of its new sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission 25-allowance futures and options contracts. The futures contract will be available for clearing through CME ClearPort®, a set of flexible clearing services open to over the counter (OTC) market participants to substantially mitigate counterparty risk and provide capital efficiencies across asset classes, beginning July 12 for trade date July 13. The futures contract will also be available for trading through CME ClearPort. The options contract will be available for trading on the New York trading floor beginning on July 13 for trade date July 14. These contracts are listed by NYMEX and are subject to NYMEX rules and regulations. Read more

Jun

27

EcoSecurities Registers the Largest Project Under the Gold Standard

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EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, announces the registration of the Rotor Elektrik Uretim wind farm in Osmaniye, Turkey, under the Gold Standard in May 2009.Zorlu Enerji has constructed the first phase of the project, which currently has 15 turbines in place. The wind farm will become operational in the next few weeks and has an installed capacity of 37.5 MW. During the course of this year and into 2010 a further 29 wind turbines will be installed resulting in 54 wind turbines in total, with an installed capacity of 135 MW, saving around 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. Read more

Jun

27

CME Group Announces European Union Allowance and Certified Emission Reduction Futures on CME Globex(R)

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CME Group, the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that its new In Delivery Month European Union Allowance (EUA) and Certified Emission Reduction (CER) futures contracts will be available for trading on CME Globex beginning on July 11 for trade date July 13. These contracts are listed for trading by NYMEX and are subject to NYMEX rules and regulations.Last week CME Group announced that these contracts would be available on the New York trading floor and through CME ClearPort(R), a set of flexible clearing services open to over the counter (OTC) market participants to substantially mitigate counterparty risk and provide capital efficiencies across asset classes.

The new contracts and their commodity codes will be in delivery month EUA futures (EAF) and in delivery month CER futures (CRE). The first listed month will be September 2009. Read more

Jun

19

Introduction of the ICE Futures ECX EUA and CER Serial Option Contracts

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Introduction of the ICE Futures ECX EUA and CER Serial Option Contracts (“the Serial Options”) and reduction of

strike price increments to €0.50

 

ECX and ICE Futures Europe are pleased to announce the introduction of Serial Options for ICE ECX EUA and CER Options, with effect from 10 July 2009.  At the same time, the strike price increments for ICE ECX EUA and CER Options will be reduced from €1.00 to €0.50.

 

The Serial Options have been designed such that additional option contract months will be introduced, all of which will expire into the December Futures contract of the equivalent year. Alongside the December option contracts, which are already listed, the additional option contract months listed will be March, June & September out to the end of the subsequent year. Read more