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Birth of a new swaps market

Compliance traders in the EU emissions trading scheme will be able to import project-based CERs to meet their requirements from 2008 onwards. Andreas Arvanitakis of Point Carbon reports

Factories and energy installations with greenhouse gas emissions that are covered by the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) face another five years of emissions caps. This means they face – and must manage – price risk up to at least 2012. In the light of this, a new tool to manage that risk has emerged: a swaps market between EU allowances and imported project credits.

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