Carbon Trade Exchange Addresses Impact of Carbon Pricing and Markets on Global Climate Change at COP21

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December 7, 2015

Sustainable Innovation Forum Opening Plenary features Carbon Trade Exchange Founder Wayne Sharpe

Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX), a global leader in environmental commodity markets, today addressed the impact of carbon pricing and markets during the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP21 in Paris. CTX Founder Wayne Sharpe spoke alongside representatives from the German Ministry of Environment, Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Vattenfall and the Inter-American Development Bank.

“The intersection of climate change and business has never been more important or influential,” comments Wayne Sharpe, Executive Chairman and Founder of CTX. “We’re pleased to be driving such an important discussion at COP21 and to discuss how businesses can strategically pursue cost-effective and efficient offsetting programs and emissions reductions.”

During the Opening Plenary, CTX examined the impact of the evolving carbon pricing and market matrix on business behaviour and low carbon project development. Specifically, CTX discussed how technology platforms and infrastructure provide a solution for carbon markets to operate efficiently and effectively, in both compliance and voluntary markets.

The panel addressed the following points:

Market-based mechanisms and carbon pricing policies foster innovation and investment in emissions-reducing technologies and finance the development of low-carbon projects around the world.
More businesses are offsetting to drive sustainable cost savings, gain competitive advantage and increase customer loyalty

Financial market infrastructure is needed to create an efficient regulatory environment for trading emission units and other environmental commodities

Carbon pricing and markets have been a central theme throughout COP21. China plans to introduce a national pricing scheme as of 2017. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim commented on this important development during one of his speeches, noting that any country that wants to do business with China will have to have carbon pricing in 2017.

CTX is a platinum sponsor of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP 21. The opening plenary took place today, December 7th, 2015, in Paris, France.

 

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With trading in commodities futures tanking because Iran is back in the global oil market (adding 1-2 billions barrels per day for export, which will result in a sustained drop in oil prices), and with the collapse in the trading of mortgage-back securities, Wall Street is focusing on Carbon Financial Instruments (CFIs) via the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange. These greedy coporists haven’t done enough damage with their banking chicanery, they have to create a phony market for “carbon trade”. They never stop. This country is doomed unless they wake up. Goldie Sacks is at it again and has testosterone crazed Al Gore as it’s celebrity front-man. Derivatives are sneaky in any form and need a government with some “cajones” to stop them and eliminate them. Almost all the revenues generated by CCX’s derivatives will be siphoned off by the same money grubbing weasels that are taking the taxpayers to the wall.

Agenda 21 is well and alive and coming after everything we own…..our land, our water on our land…….and along with cap and trade, carbon credit mandatory purchasing will take us to thrird-world status real quick.

There is always climate change, a fact that has been universally recognized from time immemorial. But the mendacious implication that a naturally variable climate is the result of the harmless and beneficial tiny trace gas CO2 has been repeatedly falsified. Carbon dioxide [which the scientifically illiterate refer to as "carbon"] is as essential to life on Earth as H2O; life could not exist without CO2. CO2 causes NO measurable rise in temperature. None. For the touchy-feely boneheads, I repeat: NONE. There is no “climate crisis,” and those promoting that canard are trying to scam the public. They are either as dishonest as any common thief, or they are ignorant. Most likely both. The current climate is entirely normal, and well within its historical parameters. In fact, the current climate is quite benign. Only the ignorant and the scam artists tell you otherwise. [CarbonOffsetDaily]

I believe that on an ongoing basis there are cycilical changes in the climate and have been since the dawn of time. I believe that we should be better stewards of the planet. Responsible companies with reasonable oversight can improve the way we manage that stewardship. That said I don’t believe that the global warming scam, the social justice plans, the redistribution of wealth schemes, government manipulation of the markets and their command & control policies are anything more than a power grab. Socialism is running rampant in this government – but not necessarily in the country as evidenced by the growing backlash. Our liberties and freedoms are threatened by this. We need to wake up before they are gone. We can be a responsible society and still be a free one but time is running out. Government control is continuing to increase and as a result freedom is being usurped. [Dave Johannes]

ICE Adds 21 Emissions Contracts to Replace Futures Exchange: The new contracts will mirror products to be lost when the futures exchange closes, the Wall Street Journal reported. New products include derivatives linked to emissions reductions plans in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut, ICE said….
More information on the new contracts is here (pdf).

THE SECRETS TEN STATES & WALL STREET DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
http://newjersey.watchdog.org/2010/08/02/cap-trade-scheme-is-clouded-in-secrecy/

Carbon trading in the US would launch a million Enrons. Is that not obvious?  

Obama was on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which provided the funding to start the Chicago Climate Exchange (carbon trade). A former Goldman Sachs CEO worked his campaign. Goldman Sachs owns a very large investment in the carbon trade industry. 



“We see a global system of emissions trading as inevitable,” said Steve Lennon, chair of the environment and energy commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, which represents hundreds of thousands of companies in 130 countries [Financial Times , June 10, 2005, page 1].

What is the Chicago Climate Exchange? Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX®) is the world's first and North America’s only voluntary, legally-binding greenhouse gas reduction, audit, registration and trading program for emission sources and offset projects in North America, Brazil and globally. [Source]

Rationale For Business Leadership to Build the Carbon Market: “It's because by participating in the Chicago Climate Exchange, which really governs IBM's own business operations and our company's own carbon footprint, we are better able to understand the entire arena of creating an inventory of carbon emissions, accounting for them in an audit-ready manner, presenting them to an exchange so they can be verified and considered to be tradable and how one does and doesn't make money on an exchange” [Wayne Balta Wayne Balta IBM VP, Corporate Environmental Affairs September 26, 2007]

“We are talking about what will be the biggest commodity ever traded. Every time a mandated market has come through, it’s provided us enormous opportunities.” [Richard Sandor, 2009 (then head of the Chicago Climate Exchange) talking about the US carbon emissions market]