Carbon Credits - Environment - "Emissions trading is the new credit derivatives"

Carbon Credits. Stock options, the transfer of more than allow the "carbon credits", please.

Technically, carbon credits' (CC) are not true "derivatives" of course, because, unlike stock options, and not "basic" or "tool".

A "carbon credit" is essentially "the right to pollution," sold by these companies are less polluting to those who for one reason or another wish to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide at the moment. Prices are probably more about the laws enacted by the legislative bodies in the respective parliaments depend on circumstances that the companies net worth of art or interest.

Market for the sale and purchase of these loans are hot, especially in Europe where most countries have signed the Kyoto Protocol to reduce CO2 emissions. United States in March 2007 has still not signed the Protocol.

Because the sale of these credits to individual companies, you need your energy and remove the projects of cooperation with the United Nations and the United Nations to obtain a certificate, and U.S. companies do not even directly. This is why London is now a center for 25 billion U.S. dollars carbon credit market, where 60% of all transactions that take place - only 10% against the U.S.

However, investors are already involved in the United States in this exciting new market for hedge funds that have a different climate than 200 members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. have

The pressure to sign the Kyoto Protocol and participate directly in trading carbon credits in the world of large states like California.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed in September 2006, a California law that mandates carbon dioxide by 25% in 2020. This would obviously interest from trade and climate change, because it is a lucrative way to self-financing of many alternative energy projects.

There is a big event in Washington to counter this trend rapidly strengthen carbon credit exchange in Beijing, China. I am convinced that we are only the beginning of a new brand that will be felt strongly in the coming months and years witness. Carbon Credits article