Origination
orbeo purchases and markets all types of carbon credits (CER, ERU, VER) providing also project development services and financing arrangements to project owners, project developers and carbon aggregators.
orbeo is a leading buyer of all kinds of CO2 instruments:
- about 100 million CERs coming from Rhodia’s Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) projects;
- more than 65 million tons CO2e purchased and sold in 2006.
orbeo benefits from Rhodia’s experience in CDM projects development
- - One of the largest project developers (around 11% of CER market share out of projects already registered on 2007-2012 as of May 2007)
- - Significant experience in N20 emissions reduction projects for having already successfully implemented a similar project in Chalampé (France) in 1998
- - Rhodia has developed two of the largest N2O CDM projects to date on its South Korean and Brazilian adipic acid plants
- - Rhodia has itself entirely conducted the industrial project as well as the definition of the N2O abatement methodology (AM 021) and the registration process with the CDM EB
- - Among the few projects to issue CER already, and delivering more than 125% of anticipated credits
15-20 additional projects under development
Expertise and skills to help you to develop your Kyoto projects
- - Methodology approval
- - Project Design Document writing
- - Engineering studies
- - Registration process
- - Emission reduction monitoring, validation, issuance
- - CER forward sales
Expertise and skills to help you to develop your Kyoto projects
- - fast track registration
- - comprehensive project and carbon flows management
- - to develop a high-profit project
Trading
orbeo is a member of the main carbon exchange places:
- ECX: Futures / ICE platform (Société Générale founding member of ICE)
- CCX: Spot / ICE platform
- POWERNEXT: Spot (Société Générale founding member)
orbeo also offers Over-the-Counter (OTC) services.
orbeo is at the forefront of the innovation in financial instruments, and is able to propose a full range of services to hedge our clients carbon assets.
orbeo is a key market maker and a market liquidity provider:
- - 65 Mt of carbon instruments traded in 2006 (>6% market share)
- - among the largest Kyoto credit dealers
orbeo is a member of INCIS (International Carbon Investors & Services).
orbeo is among execution leaders of EUAs transactions:
- - our clients benefit from our expertise and capacity of executing large transactions
- - possibility to work on an execution mandate with reference to a benchmark (Powernext Carbon for spot, and ECX for future)
orbeo develops sophisticated and varied structures around carbon instruments:
- - Swap CER / EUA
- - Zero cost swap
- - Optional structures EUA (zero cost collar, vanilla products)
orbeo provides a weekly analysis review and other publications to detail the market movements and the drivers that impact it.
with orbeo, you can ensure:
- - Risk management for our positions
- - Market making for our clients (liquidity provider)
- - High quality execution of orders
Marketing
orbeo has developed high skills to give our clients the opportunity to have access to cost effective opportunities, while minimizing their risk. All around the world, we can bring them comprehensive solutions to meet their constraints and needs.
Optimisation of Client carbon portfolio:
- EUAs, Guaranteed CERs
- Non-guaranteed “Good quality” CERs
- Non-guaranteed “Riskier” CERs
- ERUs
orbeo’s marketing team is dedicated to propose the best solutions:
- - capacity to advise on your carbon exposure, your commodities portfolio management and your risk management and build a CER portfolio strategy
- - market intelligence and analysis
- - access to all valuable traded carbon market instruments (purchase and sales)
- - solutions for business project finance
- - custody services
With orbeo, you can ensure:
- - cost-effective opportunities
- - minimal risk
- - achievement of your emission objectives
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