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Trading Green For Big Bucks

Posted April 19, 2008


There’s no denying the fact that the market to fight global climate change, improve air quality, and create alternative energy sources, has become a trillion-dollar industry. And better yet, it’s also become a trillion-dollar profit opportunity.”– Krista Das

Baltimore – (TFN): The following was taken from the April 18 Market Insights video with Krista Das featuring Nick Hodge, editor of Alternative Energy Speculator.

Watch this video.

Krista Das: Nick, just last month, the New York Mercantile Exchange unveiled a new trading platform called The Green Exchange,” can you tell us about this venture?

Nick Hodge: Sure. The Green Exchange, is, as you said, a trading platform in which traders can buy and sell commodities; in this case, carbon dioxide credits, but also credits for other greenhouse gases like nitrogen oxides and sulfuric oxides, also known as nox and sox. But this venture is exciting for a litany of reasons of which I’ll give you just two. First of all, it’s the first time U.S. traders can domestically trade carbon credits that were generated abroad via the Kyoto Protocol or the European Emissions Trading Scheme. Second of all, it also gives some validity to these kind of carbon markets here in the U.S. because big, big banks like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Chase are throwing their weight behind it.

Krista Das: How are some of these other big banks taking advantage of the carbon market?

Nick Hodge: Well first of all, they’re serving to foster and, and validate these markets by, by throwing their money behind it. We’ve seen banks like Citi and Bank of America um, set aside billions of dollars for, for clean energy projects and things like that but we’re also seeing them profit from these opportunities by, by what is now being called Project Finance and Carbon Finance so these, these big banks are putting billions of dollars into projects like wind projects um, in India and China and things like that and then they’re selling the resultant carbon credits at a premium, so, so they’re making, they’re making a pretty hefty profit in the process.

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Krista Das: Okay, so, besides buying and selling contracts for greenhouse gases, how else can you profit from the carbon market?

Nick Hodge: As an individual investor, you can look for companies that reduce carbon emissions via their day-to-day operations, so the first thing that pops to mind, of course, is renewable energy companies. Buying shares of these companies gives you, gives you secondary exposure to the carbon market. Beyond just energy companies, we’re starting to see a host of companies now actually specializing in reducing emissions and improving air quality; so we’re looking, of course, at, at carbon, at carbon sequestration companies and things of that nature.

Krista Das: So, how does an investor stay ahead of the curve and find out which companies hold these contracts?

Nick Hodge: Well that has been, to date, the $64,000.00 question. It’s kind of clandestine who is getting these Kyoto projects um, of course, you can follow the press releases, which some people do, but that kinda leaves you behind the curve. You can navigate the cumbersome United Nations website to see who’s, who’s generating these credits, um, or you can do what the alternative energy speculator is doing and, and employ a third-party um, information clearing house where you can get these types of contract information and things like that – and of course, I’m using that to pass on the stock recommendations to my readers.

Krista Das: Okay, so the Alternative Energy Speculator?

Nick Hodge: That’s correct.

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