Carbon Expo is an international fair with the accompaniment of the high-level conference on emissions trading and climate protection. It offers the possibility for companies subject to the EU emissions trading system, to be fully informed and to make contacts with service providers. In addition, host countries submit their emission reduction projects and current licensing procedures and conditions.
It is the most important world fair on carbon markets. Barcelona will host the Carbon Expo again in 2011
The organization of the Carbon Expo Fair held in the German city of Cologne has announced this Friday that next year the event will return to Barcelona, where it was already held in 2009. The announcement has been made after progressing the negotiation efforts between the World Bank, the International Emissions Trading Association and the Ministry of the Environment, and Rural and Marine Affairs together with the Generalitat of Catalonia and Fira Barcelona.
The Carbon Expo 2011 in Barcelona will hold from 25 to 27 May the eighth edition of this great business and economic meeting focused on the CO2 emissions market. In 2009 the Fair received in Barcelona more than 3,000 visitors from 111 countries and had 283 exhibitors from 83 countries.
For the Minister of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa, the announcement made today in Cologne shows the good work carried out by the Carbon Expo 2009 in Barcelona and endorses the relevant role of Spain in the design and development of carbon markets as a key tool in environmental policies to combat climate change.
Carbon Expo brings together the main players in international carbon markets, both from the point of view of supply (project promoters and representatives of developing countries) and demand (buyers of carbon credits), as well as financial agents or companies providing technology for low-carbon development. According to a report issued by the World Bank during Carbon Expo 2010, carbon markets grew by 6% in value in 2009, despite the economic downturn, to a total market value of 103 billion.
Authors: Val
