Industry Feedback
Takashi Hongo, Director General and Special Advisor of the Environmental Finance and Engineering Department, JBIC
“We are impressed by IDEAcarbon’s unique and world class skills in research and analysis in the carbon domain and are excited about the benefits that their ratings can bring to the Japanese carbon market.”
Gavin Templeton, Senior Trader, Rabobank
"IDEAcarbon has an excellent understanding of the carbon markets and have provided us with expert advice on the likely performance of carbon projects. Their understanding of the risks involved in this area was first-class and their independent analysis was an essential input to our decision making process.”
Mitchell B. Feierstein, Head of Carbon Emissions Products, Cheyne Capital Management
"For a long while, we have been very supportive of the creation and development of the IDEAcarbon ratings tool. The carbon ratings tool may provide risk managers with more objectively collated project information that may provide help in the overall assessment of carbon investments. The carbon ratings tool may be prudently incorporated, as one of several useful analytics, in a risk manager's arsenal."
Dana Hanby, Director International Markets, First Climate Markets AG
“Quality and the risks associated with projects aimed at reducing CO2 emissions are of paramount importance to a lot of the players in the market, but these are also aspects that are still confusing. Independent assessment, applied across a broad range of projects could provide standardisation and transparency needed in this market. IDEAcarbon is the first to introduce such a tool”.
Eric Bettelheim, Executive Chairman, Sustainable Forestry Management Limited
"Integrity and quality assurance are essential to the development of the carbon market. IDEAcarbon is playing a leading role in this effort. We have no doubt that its ratings offer significant value to carbon-based financial instruments."
Volker Horch, Consultant, Special and Financial Risks, Munich RE
"We appreciate IDEAcarbon's in-depth technical knowledge of Kyoto projects to properly evaluate associated risks. The analysis provides a significant contribution to our overall underwriting thought process."
Joseph Massey, MD & CEO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India
“We are happy to be working with IDEAcarbon, a global leader in carbon market standards and policy. We look forward to jointly developing transparent rated instruments for CERs, which presently have little liquidity. Our ambition is to create a truly liquid market for Indian sourced CERs. We will integrate IDEAcarbon’s ratings into the design of carbon instruments we offer on MCX.”