Information centres and networks

Carbon Trader
www.thecarbontrader.com/
The Carbon Trader provides reporting, library and commercial services intermediary within the emerging carbon credit market. The Carbon Broker (www.thecarbontrader.com/auction/auction.htm) provides opportunity for organizations to market carbon credits.

CDM Central
www.cdmcentral.org
This web site is an initiative promoted by UNDP and implemented by the CSDA within the framework of UNDP/United Nations Office for Project Services regional project for Latin America and the Caribbean. The web site focuses on the CDM, and has been created initially for use by climate change negotiators in the region. The web site will be expanded to cover other regions. The web site provides access to: monthly CDM bulletin; negotiators' guide to CDM negotiation text; official and unofficial CDM documents; an inventory of country-specific CDM activities; brief descriptions of CDM projects; links to other CDM sites; a roster of relevant institutions and consultants; schedule of CDM meetings; public forums and chat rooms for negotiators; an inventory of CDM capacity building activities; and a search function.

CDM Marketplace
www.cdm-marketplace.com/
CDM Marketplace provides an on-line 'one-stop-shop' that allows emitters, project sponsors, host country partners, investors and the CDM services industry to work together on successful CDM projects; and access to critical skills from world class companies: CDM project management, financial due diligence, verification, certification, corporate finance, insurance trading, tax and legal support.

CDM Online
www.cdmonline.org
CDM Online.org is an internet-based CDM information center. This site contains current information about the CDM, including literature, discussion groups and training activities. It aims to enhance the negotiation capacity of climate change developing country negotiators and promote private sector involvement in this financial mechanism.

CDM Susac
cdmsusac.energyprojects.net/
The CDM Susac project is committed to identify investments in key sectors (primarily energy) in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, which will be identified in conjunction with market players, and developed through operational national secretariats coordinating national and international activities. These secretariats will identify and promote projects that meet developmental and environmental objectives that result in accelerated national growth on an equitable, low-carbon path.

Chicago Climate Exchange
www.chicagoclimatex.com
The goal of the program is to design and implement a voluntary 'cap-and-trade' market for greenhouse gases. Primarily based in US Midwestern states, CCX has been able to increase its penetration of existing sectors in both the United States and Canada as well as European Union-based companies with North American operations and new participants in Mexico and Brazil.

CleanAir Canada
www.cleanaircanada.org
CleanAir Canada has evolved out of the PERT (Pilot Emission Reduction Trading) Project. The objective of CleanAir Canada is to demonstrate leadership in the development and facilitation of market-based approaches to reducing, offsetting and managing emissions. CleanAir Canada Inc. is committed to excellence in the development, operation and expanded use of local and global emission reduction market mechanisms in Canada. The multi-stakeholder membership is built on the volunteer efforts of a broad range of companies and organizations. CleanAir Canada has developed the country's largest experienced-based knowledge centre for emission reduction market mechanisms.

Climate Change Knowledge Network: climate compendium
www.cckn.net/compendium/int_cdm.asp
The CCKN established the Climate Compendium to provide a thorough, regularly-updated overview of the key issues and actors and the state of the climate negotiations. The information on CDM in the compendium covers issues under debate, recent CDM articles, reports and publications, CDM web sites and resources.

CO2e.com
www.co2e.com/
CO2e.com has been formed by the Cantor Fitzgerald group in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Both Cantor Fitzgerald and PricewaterhouseCoopers are organizations with a substantial track record in helping businesses engage in carbon commerce. CO2e.com incorporates both a marketplace and a full suite of online carbon commerce support including: a web-based broker-assisted marketplace for the trading of emissions reductions, a daily news service, briefings & insights, a specialized search engine, online business & trading tools, a global register of recognized climate change consultants and experts.

EcoCarbon
www.ecocarbon.org.au
The aim of EcoCarbon is to provide industry-based education and training with respect to the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms. EcoCarbon is providing experience in trading of greenhouse gases (GHGs), with a focus on Australian industry, though not excluding international participation. The web site provides the latest news and information, related links, and contacts.

Emissions Marketing Association
www.emissions.org
The mission of the Emissions Marketing Association is to promote market-based trading solutions for environmental management and to serve its membership. EMA promotes the advancement and application of policy and regulation relevant to market-based emission trading systems.

Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Trading Pilot
www.gert.org/
The GERT Pilot is designed to provide all participants with practical experience in emission reduction trading; assess environmental and economic benefits of emission reduction trading; test and evaluate the technical, administrative and legal elements of an emission reduction trading system; maximize involvement of the private sector by emphasizing the use of business principles to achieve environmental and economic objectives; encourage identification and joint investment in GHG emission reduction, avoidance and/or sequestration activities; and help build the foundation for a possible future emission reduction trading system.

Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative
www.ghgprotocol.org/index.htm
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative is a broad international coalition of businesses, non-governmental organizations, government, and inter-governmental organizations. It operates under the umbrella of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute. The GHG Protocol Initiative consists of two modules: Corporate GHG Accounting and Reporting: corporate inventory module, and Accounting for GHG Reduction Projects: project module.

International Carbon Bank and Exchange
www.icbe.com/REprofessionals/
The International Carbon Bank and Exchange provides a platform that enables individual and corporate clients to keep track of greenhouse gases in a secure environment. Clients can use their account at the ICBE to establish baselines, introduce emission reductions, and acquire offsets in real-time.

International Emissions Trading Association
www.ieta.org
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is committed to establish a functional international framework for trading greenhouse gas emission reductions. IETA members seek to develop an emissions trading regime that results in real and verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions while balancing economic efficiency with environmental integrity and social equity.

International Greenhouse Partnerships Program
www.isr.gov.au/content/controlfiles/display_details.cfm?
objectid=6D35F6EF-3AFE-443B-979905B5A6B8E39D
International Greenhouse Partnerships (IGP) Program is a cooperative effort by Australian industry and government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through projects overseas. The IGP Office was set up in the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Government of Australia, to implement the IGP Program and facilitate through international negotiations the establishment of the CDM and JI. The program provides assistance to help cover additional transaction costs incurred by businesses undertaking cooperative implementation projects and undertakes capacity building and training courses on the project based flexibility mechanisms.

International Utility Efficiency Partnerships, Inc.
www.ji.org/index_eng.htm
The purpose of the IUEP is to identify international energy project development opportunities, to support voluntary market-based mechanisms, including joint implementation (JI), clean development mechanism (CDM), and emissions trading project investment and development activities. IUEP has established a program to solicit, evaluate, and fund project proposals from US utilities and energy companies interested in developing and implementing international projects that avoid, reduce, or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in a credible, creative, and cost-effective manner.

Natsource
www.natsource.com
Natsource's Greenhouse Gas Brokerage Desk utilizes the company's first hand knowledge of energy and environmental markets and its global public policy expertise on climate change and related environmental issues to provide brokerage and strategic consulting services for its clients.

Point Carbon
www.pointcarbon.com
Point Carbon provides focused information and analyses of key factors influencing the present value of carbon permits. Point Carbon's quarterly analysis of carbon market developments covers both political, economic, emissions-related and market-related factors influencing the value of carbon, and is based on both quantitative data and qualitative assessments.

Trexler and Associates, Inc.
www.climateservices.com
Trexler and Associates, Inc. (TAA) is active in the emerging field of climate change risk management and in identifying and implementing greenhouse gas emissions reduction and offset strategies. TAA is implementing several carbon-offset projects internationally and in the United States. Projects in TAA's portfolio include landfill and sewage treatment plant methane capture and cogeneration, energy efficiency, reforestation and forest protection, and rural electrification through photovoltaics.

UK Emissions Trading Scheme
www.uketg.com/
The UK emissions trading scheme is the world's first economy-wide greenhouse gas trading scheme. Several organizations have voluntarily taken on a legally binding obligation to reduce their emissions against 1998-2000 levels, delivering over 4 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent emission reductions by the final year of the scheme. More details are available at www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/trading/index.htm

UNCTAD GHG Emissions Trading
www.unctad.org/en/subsites/etrade/index.htm
The goal of the programme is to reduce the impact of climate change by helping foster the development of an integrated global emissions trading system in which all countries would participate based on the accepted principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. A Plurilateral Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System (www.unctad.org/ghg/projects/ghget.htm) has been launched which will provide support to interested governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations for the development of a plurilateral market for trading in greenhouse gas emission allowance and certified emission reduction credits.

UNIDO Knowledge Network for Industrial Technology Transfer
www.unido.org/knitt/index.html
The UNIDO Knowledge Network for Industrial Technology Transfer (KNITT) aims to facilitate the development and application of new knowledge to 'enable' industrial activities under the project-based mechanisms (the clean development mechanism and joint implementation) of the Kyoto Protocol in developing and transition economy countries. KNITT consists of inter-linked national networks each supporting the application of locally relevant knowledge to the processes of identification, screeening and implementation of industrial CDM projects (assessment, transfer, adaptation, adoption and diffusion of industrial greenhouse-gas mitigation technologies) in their countries.