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Point Carbon's Research Service is designed for players who have a high level of interest and involvement in carbon markets. This service provides regular, in-depth analyses of carbon markets in North America and around the world. The package also includes analyses of international negotiations and prospects for the global carbon market. You'll find the policy analysis of Point Carbon's Research Service invaluable in the highly political world of carbon markets. 

Typical topics we cover

  • Market and business implications of policy developments at the federal, state and provincial levels
  • Emerging market dynamics and commodity price impacts for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
  • Status and implications of market design in the Western Climate Action Initiative
  • Fuel price and corporate impacts of proposed carbon market structures on energy suppliers and users
  • North American voluntary and pre-compliance offset project markets and their implications for evolving global carbon markets 


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Latest publications

05 Feb 10

POINT CARBON ANALYSIS - Uncertainty over the fate and content of a climate bill has reached unprecedented heights, but alternatives to federal legislation are also undefined at this point.

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05 Feb 10

POINT CARBON ANALYSIS – The EPA’s ongoing efforts to regulate GHG via the Clean Air Act could well be thwarted by the Murkowski resolution. But even if the EPA proceeds with proposed rules, legal challenges and bureaucratic complexity would likely delay entry into force of any regulation by several years and severely limit its overall impact on emissions.

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04 Feb 10

The purpose of this report is to establish a fair price for secondary CERs post 2012, and to explain possible price formation by using scenario analysis. Three different price scenarios are weighted according to the probability that each will materialise, in order to provide a single planning price in 2016.

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Upcoming Events in North America

  • February 17-18, 2010: US Dept. of Energy hosts 5th annual National Electricity Forum. Topics include technology drivers, electric power infrastructure, and federal carbon mandates. Speakers include FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff, Commissioner Marc Spitzer, state utility commissioners and power company CEOs. Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC.
  • February 24, 2010: Subscriber webinar on Canada and carbon markets, hosted by Point Carbon and EcoRessources. 11:00 a.m. to noon eastern standard time
  • February 24, 2010: International Emissions Trading Association's winter symposium: "Potential outcomes and uncertainties of the EPA's proposed regulations under the Clean Air Act." Hunton & Williams, LLC, Washington DC. 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • February 25-27, 2009: Forest Carbon Finance Summit hosted by Duke University, Harvard Law School, World Wildlife Fund. Corporate executives and policy experts discuss the role of markets in reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Fairmont Hotel, Washington DC.
  • March 3, 2010: WCI partners meeting via teleconference and live in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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