Bryony Worthington: Blessings never ceased to rain on the director of carbon offset pressure group Sandbag.
Ben Caldecott is head of policy at Climate Change Capital & James Leaton is project director at Carbon Tracker Initiative.
"These policies are not particularly efficient, but they have been quite effective," says Guy Turner, director of carbon markets at New Energy Finance.
RYAN MURPHY Staten Island, May 23, 2013 The writer is marketing director for Carbon Black, a software development company specializing in computer security.
James Leaton, research director at Carbon Tracker, says: "A lot of the information the companies get is very short-term, where there is no limit to emissions.
"Farmers use the term 'clapped-out paddock' but we have clapped-out Australia," says Louisa Kiely, director of Carbon Farmers of Australia.
"The commission has proposed another carte blanche to energy-intensive industry worth €5bn of taxpayers money," said Eva Filzmoser, the director of Carbon Market Watch.
That is why financial regulators need to make 2C stress tests standard practice for the energy sector to help avoid companies wasting capital," said James Leaton, research director at Carbon Tracker, a non-profit financial thinktank.
Most big companies in the cement and steel sectors had generated surpluses of permits each year since the start of the European system in 2005, according to Cédric Bleuez, the managing director of Carbon Market Data, a research company with headquarters in Britain and France.
And while the fossil fuel companies may face the biggest climate change risks, the need for financial disclosure stretches to other industries, said Mark Campanale, founder and executive director at Carbon Tracker, a financial think tank that focuses on energy and climate change.
Investors are already aware of the possibility that fossil fuel projects won't have a future, said Mark Campanale, the founder and executive director of Carbon Tracker.
