Brad Smith

Carbon Trading Set to Triple by 2012

Through the process of aggregating information at greenmarketintelligenc... I have concluded that carbon trading projections are beginning to describe the emergence of a mega trend.

I believe that new information pieces must do a better job of articulating how carbon markets intersect with scientific measurements and metrics and informing a wider segment of readers about how these intersections become predictive markets.

Carbon market information pieces need to help readers understand the economic value propositions that are being asserted by carbon market participants.

Information pieces need to educate readers about the potential for carbon trading to be predictive markets that help allocate the right amount of capital to high potential projects.

The challenge of better articulating how climate change scientific measurements and metrics are rendered into predictive market capital allocation choices by carbon market participants must be faced. Overcoming this challenge will help readers understand how predictive markets organize and develop to allocate capital. This encompasses explaining how carbon market participants factor scientific analytics, metrics and measurements into predictive market transactions and how these transactions influence or affect capital allocation decisions. Reporting about the evolution of carbon markets will help wider audiences understand that carbon markets are being organized and developed to address issues that have been introduced by scientific study.

Carbon market participants are leveraging the power of predictive markets to render scientific measurements into capital allocation decisions. Innovative new business models to address climate change or carbon mitigation issues are being introduced daily. Some will succeed and others will fail however it is a good thing that so many people are engaging in unprecedented levels of innovation because each new model has the potential to elevate or scale up societies ability to solve problems and create viable solutions.

Increasing measurement rates for the organization and development of carbon markets captures a picture of the ebbs and flows of this mega trend and the innovation that is sustaining it.

Carbon market information producers need to focus on creating information pieces that explain the emergence of carbon markets to a wider audience.

Carbon Trading Set to Triple by 2012

Through the process of aggregating information at greenmarketintelligenc... leads I have concluded that carbon trading projections are beginning to describe the emergence of a mega trend.

I believe that new information pieces must do a better job of articulating how carbon markets intersect with scientific measurements and metrics and informing a wider segment of readers about how these intersections become predictive markets.

Carbon market information pieces need to help readers understand the economic value propositions that are being asserted by carbon market participants.

Information pieces need to educate readers about the potential for carbon trading to be predictive markets that help allocate the right amount of capital to high potential projects.

The challenge of better articulating how climate change scientific measurements and metrics are rendered into predictive market capital allocation choices by carbon market participants must be faced. Overcoming this challenge will help readers understand how predictive markets organize and develop to allocate capital. This encompasses explaining how carbon market participants factor scientific analytics, metrics and measurements into predictive market transactions and how these transactions influence or affect capital allocation decisions. Reporting about the evolution of carbon markets will help wider audiences understand that carbon markets are being organized and developed to address issues that have been introduced by scientific study.

Carbon market participants are leveraging the power of predictive markets to render scientific measurements into capital allocation decisions. Innovative new business models to address climate change or carbon mitigation issues are being introduced daily. Some will succeed and others will fail however it is a good thing that so many people are engaging in unprecedented levels of innovation because each new model has the potential to elevate or scale up societies ability to solve problems and create viable solutions.

Increasing measurement rates for the organization and development of carbon markets captures a picture of the ebbs and flows of this mega trend and the innovation that is sustaining it.

Carbon market information producers need to focus on creating information pieces that explain the emergence of carbon markets to a wider audience.

Cap and Trade and the Russian Market

Todd, you have articulated a very keen observation about the investment value of carbon credits.

The scale of carbon credit creation, carbon trading and carbon mitigation metrics offers mega trend investment, economic development and business development opportunities.

You have keenly observed that the scale of carbon market space metrics offer compelling reasons to develop investment analysis expertise about global carbon mitigation mega trends.

Emission trading is already a global market > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Developing carbon market investment expertise will enable investors to participate in a global channel of new investment opportunities.

US$600 Billion-Plus World Carbon Trade Market Projected By 2013 > www.treehugger.com/fil...

Some companies will pay a disproportionate percentage to purchase carbon credits in this emerging market space. Understanding why can help investors pick carbon market winners and losers.

“The Financial Times reported that the carbon market could "outstrip the conventional commodities markets" ~ estimates of more than $3 trillion by 2020 have been made by Point Carbon ~ Bart Chilton, commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission has estimated that “even with conservative assumptions, Carbon could be a $2 trillion futures market in relatively short order.” > www.triplepundit.com/p...

Whatever projected number one chooses to believe it a very large carbon market investment opportunity is being created. Researching carbon market trading now begins developing carbon market investment expertise that can be applies as more and more companies are required to address carbon footprint issues.

Cities that support aspirational goals to create low carbon footprint communities will discover that part of any action plan to achieve this goal includes purchasing carbon credits.

Under these assumptions estimates of potential carbon market metrics can be made for identified sub-markets and obviously no market will reach 100% of its potential estimate.

Examples of carbon credit sub-markets include:

Event Days at Convention Centers create a sub market that can be expressed as an annual gross value. Estimate $2,000 per day for each event to purchase a carbon credit, and the estimated aggregate value for Event Venues to purchase Carbon Credits may be more than $500,000,000 per year.

Homes create a sub market. Assume $370 per year carbon credit cost for a family of 4 and $200 per year for a 2 person household average = $285 x 100,000,000 homes and the estimated aggregate market value for homes to purchase carbon credits = $28,500,000,000 annually just for the United States.

24 million small-to-medium-size-b... (SMEs) in the United States. Assume $2,000 per year to purchase carbon offsets. (2,000 x 24,000,000 = $40,000,000,000 estimated aggregate market value for SMEs to purchase carbon offsets each year.

The $2-Trillion to $3-Trillion projected US carbon futures market value will ultimately generate substantial carbon trading numbers for the largest companies.

Obviously only small percentages of these estimated numbers will actually become carbon credit sub markets but the industry to create and trade these carbon credits will still be larger than many existing segments or categories.

The estimated numbers are offered to support your point that the carbon market space will be so large that investors should begin research and analysis to develop their carbon market investment expertise now so they can position themselves to benefit economically as global carbon credit trading markets take shape.

Thank you for making people aware of the emerging carbon credit trading opportunity and please keep sharing your keen observations about it.

Sincerely,
Brad Smith
SME Capital Markets
smecapitalmarkets.net

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Outperforms Cool

John,
As one who attempts to identify relevant information at greenmarketintelligenc... I applaud your effort to inform readers about value propositions. After reading a few thousand articles and studies about alternative energy, clean tech, green tech, green jobs, green goods and services and related information pieces and research reports I learned that very few information producers drill down to discretely describe the monetization and value creation aspects that are vitally important to drive breakthroughs into the market place. I salute you for working on this aspect as you share information with your readers. It is obvious that you have developed a deep well of knowledge about alternative energy storage. I encourage you to apply this knowledge by focusing on articulating macro metrics that may be produced or impacted as alternative energy storage technologies are used in the market place. One of your recent articles cited a projection for electric powered vehicles. Refining this projection into metrics per million vehicles may help describe upside market value opportunity for the alternative energy storage category.
Elementary examples of metrics might include:
Metric for Carbon Credits created by 1 million electric vehicles
Metric for reductions in barrels of oil imported per 1 million vehicles
Metric for cost savings per 1-million electric power vehicle miles driven compared to gasoline power vehicle miles driven costs. From my perspective, articulating macro metrics that drive monetization and value creation is a missing but vital ingredient. My take away from reading Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Outperforms Cool is that you have taken an important early step toward articulating how market turn over, monetization and value creation will evolve. Keep up the good work.
Regards, Brad Smith

A Very Smart Plan for Federal Smart Grid Grants

A few companies that offer carbon information management software and analytic, measurement and metric solutions are listed at greenmarketintelligenc...

Look in the Information Technology, SaaS and Cloud Computing category which begins about 3/4 of the way down the page.


On Apr 21 12:51 PM Freya wrote:

> You have to be able to measure it before you are able to Tax it or
> create a market for it. You will find that the tech to do this isn't
> available on every street corner.
>
> Do you know of any companies providing this service?