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Before you have me committed, let me explain. Lately, I’ve had awful luck with women. A friend calls it a “fizzle” when someone has a date or two but the relationship doesn’t progress from there. By that metric, I’ve had something like five fizzles since the middle of October...
Meanwhile, the Crimson maintained Ivy leads in scoring, passing, shooting, and just about every turnover ratio metric in existence...
...inquiry pops up on a CO2e computer screen from a potential customer in India. Nicola Steen, CO2e's vice president and transaction specialist, is pleased. "It doesn't matter where in the world that you reduce a metric ton of carbon dioxide," she says. "If you can reduce emissions from what they otherwise would have been, that's a good thing...
...which traded CO2 allowances can change hands immediately. Currently, trading is only in forward contracts, tailored between buyers and sellers for delivery at a future date. Given the stumbling blocks, the fledgling emissions market has yet to achieve much. More than 1 million emissions allowances - each equivalent to one metric ton of CO2 - change hands each week in electronic trading alone, Drummond says. (CO2 is considered the biggest atmosphere offender, but methane, nitrous oxide and three other gases also are due to be traded according to their CO2 equivalents.) Conducted in "clips" of 5,000 metric tons, the typical trade...
...Even so, brokers - there are 11 brokerages involved in various aspects of the market - are optimistic. The price of a metric ton of CO2 has plunged since the ets scheme began officially on Jan. 1 - to less than ?7 from the informal "gray-market" figure of ?13 at the start of 2004 - but has inched upward again, closing at ?7.23 last Friday. The trading system is designed to limit greenhouse gases to specified targets while minimizing compliance costs - and fining offenders, starting at ?40 per ton in April. So if the price is very low, says Drummond, it could...