A Future for Carbon Finance
A Future for Carbon Finance
via TheCleanSlateReport, Tue 20 Mar 2007
The recent announcement of the World Bank’s 10th carbon fund – the Carbon Fund for Europe (CFE) – provided much needed long-term stability to the carbon project finance market. Specifically, up to 40 percent of the CFE’s investment in a project may be allocated to carbon credits generated by a project after 2012, when the present Kyoto regulatory regime will expire.
The support for the post-2012 carbon trading regime is particularly reassuring. For the thousands of carbon projects now under development around the globe, this announcement has opened up new financing opportunities. While they still face a more difficult financing environment as 2012 approaches, with market uncertainty lessened, it is expected that more private equity will flow to carbon finance, says this post @ EcoFinance
Read more from the report about what the future for carbon finance could look like.
via TheCleanSlateReport, Tue 20 Mar 2007
The recent announcement of the World Bank’s 10th carbon fund – the Carbon Fund for Europe (CFE) – provided much needed long-term stability to the carbon project finance market. Specifically, up to 40 percent of the CFE’s investment in a project may be allocated to carbon credits generated by a project after 2012, when the present Kyoto regulatory regime will expire.
The support for the post-2012 carbon trading regime is particularly reassuring. For the thousands of carbon projects now under development around the globe, this announcement has opened up new financing opportunities. While they still face a more difficult financing environment as 2012 approaches, with market uncertainty lessened, it is expected that more private equity will flow to carbon finance, says this post @ EcoFinance
Read more from the report about what the future for carbon finance could look like.
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