Financial Soultions: The huge future of Carbon Credit trading

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The spectacular and unrelenting growth of carbon credit trading
is likely to make it a top traded commodity.

Financial Soultions has heard from a variety of sources that the Carbon Market certainly has the potential to become one of, if not the world’s largest commodity markets within with in a few very short years.

One such view comes from AAP Carbon Limited, a Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project developer working primarily in the ferro-alloy sector in South
Africa.

Globally the CDM market has seen unparalleled growth from US$4.5 million in early 2005 to US$36 billion in the last 3 years, and the potential for the market is practically unlimited, according to an AAP source Known to Financial Soultions.

Other more cautious time projections agree that trade in carbon credits will be a colossal part of the financial market over the next decade.
Initially, when the foreign exchange market began, there were similar hesitations to what is currently occurring in carbon trading, with investors wondering how to align and calculate the value of fluctuating currencies on a daily basis and it is the same with carbon trade. Given the obstinate stance of the US on carbon emissions, markets have begun as regional and voluntary entities before a common global carbon market becomes a reality.

Another industry related source known to Financial Soultions said that trade in carbon credits was already growing at a rapid rate and believes that there will be a global carbon market in the medium term.

With climate exchanges already established in Europe and Asia, and a similar African exchange due shortly, as well as the Montreal Climate Exchange and two U.S. voluntary exchanges, Financial Soultions analysts and sources feel that irrespective of the U.S. position after the Copenhagen climate talks in December, the future of this explosive industry is already sealed.

Posted on October 26, 2009 · in Global

Tagged as: carbon credits • Carbon Emission • Carbon Markets • CDM