First Trading Platform for Voluntary Emission Credits Announced

October 7th, 2009 KREMS, Austria - - Unique MBA Program at Danube University Krems, Austria Starting November 2009 The Business School at Danube University Krems in Austria has developed a management program specially geared towards the requirements of companies participating in the European emissions trading scheme. Participants receive comprehensive training in a complex field that requires many different skills.

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - - NYSE's Bluenext and Chinese-Beijing Environmental Exchange (CBEEX) further strengthen global partnership NYSE's Bluenext and CBEEX announce the development of China's first Voluntary Standard at the first US-China Low Carbon Conference in New York today. Not only does this strengthen the new partnership between CBEEX and Bluenext first announced earlier this summer, but also marks the first step towards a Voluntary system to limit emissions domestically in China.

September 22nd, 2009 DUBLIN - EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, has partnered with Baker & McKenzie LLP, a leading climate change law firm, and ClimateBiz, the resource for climate management, to launch the second edition of The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Report 2009. The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey was originally undertaken in 2008 to establish what the business consumer thought about the voluntary carbon market and understand the varying views and opinions about the use of carbon offsets as part of a wider, integrated carbon management strategy.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Mercuria Energy is positioning itself to be one of the world's top traders in carbon, with strategic hires and a business plan for growth. Among the new talent that has joined Mercuria are: - Andrei Marcu, former President of the International Emissions Trading Association and former CEO of Bluenext, who is one of the corporate sector pioneers in the area of climate change and sustainable development, - Franck Bernard, former business developer with MASDAR and with EdF Trading-a part of Électricité de France-who has been a pioneer in negotiating emissions reduction purchase agreements, - Carl Vevle, a seasoned portfolio manager with experience at BP, Fortis and JP Morgan, - Li Xing, an expert on the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets, with experience at Deutsche Bank.

June 14th, 2009 AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced the opening of the third large landfill gas (LFG) plant near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, named Novo Gramacho. The opening coincided with the celebration of the International Environmental Day.

June 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - Winners chosen on the basis of readers' choice via independent electronic voting TraderTools Inc. (TraderTools), a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX, announced today that TraderTools has been recognized by Profit and Loss Magazine as the Best Liquidity Aggregation Platform in the publication's 2009 Digital Market Awards.

June 1st, 2009 DUBLIN - EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing, and trading carbon credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, announces the registration of the Rotor Elektrik Uretim wind farm in Osmaniye, Turkey, under the Gold Standard in May 2009. Zorlu Enerji has constructed the first phase of the project, which currently has 15 turbines in place.

May 12th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - Rasamny-Younis Motor Company S.A.L. (RYMCO), exclusive dealer of Nissan Motors (Nissan, Infiniti), GM vehicles (GMC), Renault trucks, Nissan Diesel (UD), FAW trucks, and Kawasaki in Lebanon, has taken pioneering steps in its quest to emerge as one of the country's most environmentally-friendly automotive dealers, by signing an agreement with UK-listed EcoSecurities to audit and offset the Company's direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases.

April 19th, 2009 DUBLIN - EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading emission reductions from greenhouse gas abatement projects, Conservation International, The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance and ClimateBiz, announce the findings of their 'Forest Carbon Offsetting Survey 2009', one of the first research studies to focus on corporate attitudes concerning carbon offsets from forestry projects. Highlights of the research, which sampled 120 global, multinational and regional organisations, and 21 carbon companies, included: - Avoided deforestation (91%) and reforestation with native tree species (89%) were rated the most desirable forestry projects in relation to Carbon results; - South America (78%), Africa (71%) and South East Asia (69%) are the three most desirable regions from which to purchase forest carbon credits; - The Clean Development Mechanism (64%) and the Voluntary Carbon Standard (60%) were rated as the most desirable standards when purchasing forest carbon offsets; - Participants highlighted the most important factor when purchasing forest offsets are carbon standards (91%), closely followed by experience and credibility of the project developer (87%); - In comparison to Europe (19%), companies in North America (50%) are much more willing to pay up front for carbon credits that will be generated in more than five years time; - Benefits to local communities and the environment (88%) and the global scale of the problem (77%) have been the key motivational factors for adopting offsets from forest carbon projects.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - Company to Support Platform Extension and Product Development eToro, the fastest growing online financial trading platform, today announced it closed a $6.3 million round of financing with significant investments made by several private equity and VC investors including BRM Group and Cubit Investments. The online financial trading company which began as a unique and innovative online forex trading (www.etoro.com) platform has achieved all of its original investor goals leading to the successful second round of financing.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Travel management company Uniglobe Travel Wednesday launched a carbon offset programme in India that will allow air travellers to purchase carbon credits to reduce the environmental impact of their travel. Uniglobe, which launched the programme in association with CarbonNeutral Co, a global carbon management firm, said the fund raised through the sale of carbon credits would be used in various emission reduction projects in the country.

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian sugar industry has the potential to save millions of dollars annually by engaging in carbon credit trading and focussing on ethanol production, a top government official said here Wednesday. 'Given the scale of the sugar enterprises in India, the industry should come up in a big way to encash the potential of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) trading,' Heavy Industries Secretary S.N.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Metro, which is the first railway project in the world to be registered for carbon credits by the United Nations, has been certified to have prevented over 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere by reducing its power requirement in three years, an official said Sunday. Registering the Delhi Metro's contribution, the Germany-based validation organization TUVNORD conducted an audit on behalf of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and gave its certificate.

August 10th, 2009 New Zealand sets greenhouse gas emissions targetWELLINGTON, New Zealand —New Zealand announced on Monday that it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the country's climate change minister said. The target, confirmed by the Cabinet, will be presented later Monday at an international climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, Nick Smith said.

September 24th, 2009 Calif. clean-air program designed to boost forestsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators Thursday expanded the state's carbon-offset program to include forests across the country, creating the most far-reaching effort of its kind in the nation.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A small afforestation project in Haryana has become the first in the world to qualify for carbon credits, which the project managers can sell in a developed country. The European Commission (EC), which has co-funded the Haryana Community Forestry Project - of which this project to get carbon credits is a small part - said in a statement here Thursday that this was the first small-scale afforestation project in the world to get certified by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the UN.

March 25th, 2009 KOCHI - ICICI Securities Wednesday launched active trader service (ATS), an offline trading platform, in Kochi. The ATS offers specialised research and personalised services with the aid of latest technology and infrastructure to active traders.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A document released by the Information Office of the State Council, China, has aimed to cut the country's sulfur dioxide emission by 2010. According to the document, in 2010, China's amount of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the emission of sulfur dioxide will be 10 percent lower than those in 2005.

March 13th, 2009 GREENWICH - Interactive Brokers has announced that its recent regulatory approval by the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) allows it to offer private Indian national residents and non-Indian national residents (in conformance with the FEMA Act 2000) market access through its online brokerage platform known as Trader Work Station (TWS). Interactive Brokers (India) Pvt.

September 9th, 2009 MarketAxess Aug. trading volume rises 71 percentNEW YORK — MarketAxess Holdings Inc., which operates an electric trading platform for corporate bonds, said Tuesday its trading volume jumped 71 percent in August as markets regained some stability over the last year.