IDEAcarbon launched a “Partner Programme” for the first online calendar for the carbon markets yesterday. The aim is to enable investors and policy makers to stay abreast of and anticipate key factors shaping emissionsEmissions of greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas precursors, and aerosols associated with human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, land-use changes, livestock, fertilisation, etc. (IPCC) markets.  This calendar  is updated on partner websites (like reegle) and covers three key event categories:

• Regulatory, legislative and negotiating events including CDM Executive Board and JISC meetings, the EU regulatory schedule, US regional trading scheme launch dates and UNFCCC negotiations;
• Market events, contract expiry dates and auctions;
• Conferences, workshops and seminars in all major cities

The reegle team recently signed a cooperation with IDEAcarbon and became a partner for this programme because we think that this information will be extremely useful for our users. In addition we will start to distribute the IDEAcarbon pCER Index, which is designed to give market participants visibility into the opaque market for primary CERs.  Unlike the markets for secondary guaranteed and issued CERs, there is no liquid trading platform for primary CERs, and prices vary widely around the world and across technologies. Each CDMDefined in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, the CDM is intended to meet two objectives: (1) to assist parties not included in Annex I in achieving sustainable development and in contributing to the ultimate objective of the convention; and (2) to assist parties included in Annex I in achieving ... project comes with its own particular cocktail of risk elements, meaning that there are potentially as many pCER prices as there are CDM projects.

Henry Derwent, President IETA and former Chairman if the REEEPThe Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a non-profit, specialist change agent aiming to catalyse the market for renewable energy and energy efficiency, with a primary focus on emerging markets and developing countries. governing board stated recently about these new services:
‘Carbon marketA system in which Carbon is given an economic value, allowing people, companies or nations to trade it. If a nation bought carbon, it would be buying the rights to burn it, and a nation selling carbon would be giving up its rights to burn it. participants are always seeking to gain clarity given the evolving nature of the market. The IDEAcarbon Carbon Calendar provides the critical events for the carbon market and explain their significance, while the IDEAcarbon pCER Index provides an understanding of the price dynamics in the primary CERA Kyoto Protocol unit equal to 1 metric tonne of CO2 equivalent. CERs are issued for emission reductions from CDM project activities. Two special types of CERs called temporary certified emission reduction (tCERs) and long-term certified emission reductions (lCERs) are issued for emission ... market’.

You will find regular updates of the IDEAcarbon pCER Index and the IDEA Carbon Calendar on the new desgined reegle.info, which will go online end of April.