Friday, July 26, 2013

Unprecedented freeze in United Nations carbon trading: Not a single UN Certified Emission Reduction, or CER, changed hands on July 22 and July 23

Trading Halt Shows UN Carbon System in Jeopardy: Energy Markets - Bloomberg
An unprecedented freeze in United Nations carbon trading is fanning speculation the five-year-old market designed to combat greenhouse-gas emissions in poor countries is in danger of becoming superfluous.

Not a single UN Certified Emission Reduction, or CER, changed hands on July 22 and July 23, according to data from ICE Futures Europe, keeping the market on course for the lowest monthly aggregate volume since March 2008.

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