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    Saturday, February 24, 2007

    BARCLAYS BANKING ON THE CARBON TRADE

    Barclays taps into demand for global carbon market
    Jane Merriman (with Barbara Lewis), February 19, 2007 (Reuters via Washington Post)

    - Barclays Capital is to launch what it says is the first global investment tool to tap investors' growing appetite for exposure to trading in greenhouse gases.
    - Barclays' new tracker, set to launch soon, also illustrates the growing diversity and sophistication of commodity and energy investment products.
    - Torsten de Santos, head of commodity investor solutions at Barclays Capital, said the tracker was the first of its kind on a global scale…


    - The World Bank estimates global trade in carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, was worth more than $20 billion last year.
    - The European Union already has a carbon trading market, where companies trade credits that allow them to emit carbon dioxide…
    - There is growing pressure from industry players and some governments for an emissions trading market on a global scale…Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell called for a global "cap and trade" system as a way to cut carbon emissions…Exxon Mobil chief executive Rex Tillerson has also urged countries to work together toward a global policy to fight climate change…

    - The new product is essentially an index tracker, but one designed to track the price of global emission credits…
    - Commodities investment has mushroomed from $5 billion in 1999 to around $120 billion…Traditionally investors have used indexes, or baskets of commodities, to gain exposure to the raw materials assets class, but now there is a host of tailor-made products that can generate returns regardless of market direction.
    - Barclays Capital has by far the largest share of the commodities structured products market and…[there is] massive investor interest in new environmental markets such as carbon and biofuels…

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