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 emissions 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 CDM 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 REEEP governing board stated recently about these new services:
‘Carbon market 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 CER 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.