(Washington, DC) July 14, 2021—The Environmental Markets Association (EMA) announced the dates and location for their 25^th Annual Meeting during their Webinar on The Maryland Cap.  

Executive Director, Lauren LeMunyan shared that after a year and change of virtual meetings, the association is holding their first in person event at The Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas on October 11 – 13, 2021. 

Chairman Jack Velasquez of Marex Spectron expressed his excitement during the Webinar, “I can’t wait to see you all in person to come together to move environmental markets forward.” 

The event will have a capped attendance and follow all recommended federal, state and local health protocols. The Annual Meeting will include a day and a half of live sessions and networking opportunities.  

To join the planning committee and learn more about the conference, visit www.enviromarkets.org.   

(July 12, 2021) - Xpansiv, the global marketplace for Intelligent Commodities™, today announced that more than one billion environmental credits have been processed through EMA, its multi-registry ESG portfolio management system, since EMA was acquired in December 2019. The company also announced an agreement to integrate American Carbon Registry (ACR) with EMA, expanding the number of registries accessible through the platform.

EMA aggregates portfolio positions from ten environmental registries into a single access point, enabling market participants to analyze, report, monitor, manage, trade, and forward schedule energy and environmental inventory in a unified account structure. Position and portfolio valuations are updated daily with closing prices from Xpansiv market CBL, the leading spot exchange for energy, environmental, and ESG commodities.

Read more here: https://xpansiv.com/one-billionth-credit-processed-through-ema-acr-integration/

(July 08, 2021) - Evolution Markets announces the launch of structured transaction services for the growing U.S. renewable natural gas market (RNG). The New York-based desk offers services to facilitate term physical and financial contracts for natural gas derived from renewable sources, such as landfills or anaerobic digesters at agricultural facilities.

The group serves geographic locations throughout North America. The Evolution Markets Renewable Natural Gas Desk specializesin structured products, including term offtake agreements for new facilities, volumetric and price hedging transactions for operating RNG facilities, as well as facilitating contract origination and negotiation.

Read more here: https://www.evomarkets.com/content/news/news_releases_49_news_release_pdf.pdf

Current EMA Members now have access to the full transcript from the June 9th State of the Markets Webinar featuring Michael Ball of Argus Media, Elana Knopp of New Project Media, Dan McGraw of Carbon Pulse and Jennifer McIsaac of S&P Global Platts.

To access the transcript, visit the following link and login with your membership credentials.

(July 6, 2021) - As we continue to build out our data and analytics offerings, we are pleased to launch our latest product on Biodiesel.  Biofuel is an expanding market within the energy sector in Europe, as many countries are now looking for ways to reduce their carbon emissions within the transport sector.

Biofuel is seen as a ‘green’ alternative to heavy fuel oils, such as gasoil (a market which we already cover). This report outlines some of the main supply and demand factors within the market and is a further expansion of our Environmental Markets Research.

Read more here: https://www.marex.com/news/2021/07/expanding-our-environmental-markets-research-biodiesel/

(July 1, 2021) - Xpansiv, the global marketplace for ESG commodities, today announced a new quarterly volume record on CBL, the leading spot exchange for energy and environmental commodities. Q2 2021 volumes surpassed the previous quarterly record, set in Q1 2021, by 29% and exceeded Q2 2020 activity by 374%.

Carbon transactions of 25,843,428 mtC02e bested the volume record set last quarter by 33%. On a year-over-year basis, CBL carbon volumes are up 393%. In addition, a record 66 billion litres of water rights and allocations were traded on Xpansiv market H2OX, Australia’s water exchange, topping the previous record of 64,958 ML set in Q1 2018.

Read More Here: https://xpansiv.com/xpansiv-market-cbl-sets-quarterly-record/

(June 24, 2021) - PSEG today accelerates its net-zero ambitions by launching a three-pronged 2030 climate vision that extends across its business. The PSEG climate vision marks one of the first and most aggressive net-zero 2030 visions set by a large utility and power generator and comprises three pillars: 

1. Net-zero emissions for PSEG operations, including PSE&G’s utility operations (scopes 1 and 2);
2. 100% greenhouse gas- (GHG), carbon-free power generation; and 
3. Significant contributions to regional economy-wide decarbonization. 

Read more here: https://nj.pseg.com/newsroom/newsrelease231

(June 23, 2021) - Mercuria, one of the world’s largest integrated independent energy and commodities trading companies, announced today that it has acquired a significant minority equity position in TechMet, a private company dedicated to building world class projects that produce, process and recycle “technology metals” critical to electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energy systems and energy storage.

The announcement comes as part of Mercuria’s larger corporate strategy and commitment to increased investments in the energy transition.

Read more here: https://www.mercuria.com/media-room/business-news/mercuria-invests-future-technology-metals

(June 23, 2021) - The shift toward “net zero” is on. Reaching aspirational goals to stave off the worst of global warming requires a multifaceted approach that includes one critical pathway that is sometimes mentioned but often underestimated- carbon offsets.

The good news is the design and use of offsets has been proven over the past nearly 20 years, providing a host of benefits that complement, not substitute for a company’s efforts to cut emissions internally. Actions such as stopping deforestation and restoring agricultural soils are not optional but a requirement to stabilize the climate. 

Read more here: https://theincubex.com/2021/06/part-of-the-climate-solution-is-found-in-our-past/

(June 23, 2021) - Earlier this month, Enbridge Inc.’s Texas Eastern Transmission unit (TETCO) announced that its natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to Mississippi could be operating at reduced pressure until late third quarter, reducing flow to nearly 1 bcf per day, down from 1.9 bcf per day in May.

This news came along with increasing temperatures for the 5-day forecast with increased cooling demand expected, especially in the West and Texas. Traders have been focused on the logistical concerns to meet increasing demand and prices have reached their highest level in more than 7 months.

Read more here: http://www.theenergytrail.com/volatility-returns-to-the-natural-gas-market-2/