Climate Bridge Ltd is delighted to announce the appointment of Anthony Bishop as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Company Secretary. Anthony joined the Climate Bridge Melbourne office at the beginning of November, 2011, and was appointed to the Climate Bridge Board in March, 2012.

Anthony joins us from Molopo Energy Ltd, an ASX listed oil & gas company with operations in Canada, South Africa, USA and Australia, where he was CFO and Company Secretary. Previously, Anthony was an equity analyst at Goldman Sachs JB Were for approximately six years, where he focussed on the energy sector.  Prior to his time at Goldman Sachs, Anthony worked at Shell for nine years in a variety of roles in both Australia and the UK.  Anthony spent the early part of his career as a lawyer during the early 1990s.

Climate Bridge now has the 13th largest portfolio of United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the world according to latest statistics from UNEP Risoe. Notably, Climate Bridge is one of only a handful of project developers in the top 20.

See here for details: http://cdmpipeline.org/cers.htm

The Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, in collaboration with Climate Bridge, Vivid Economics and the Grattan Institute has published a response to the Australian government’s discussion paper on “Price floor for Australia’s Carbon Pricing Mechanism – Implementing a Surrender Charge for International Units”.

The Australian Clean Energy Future Package, which passed on 8th November 2011 introduces a carbon price for Australia. From 2015 onwards, this will be achieved through an Emissions Trading Scheme, with a floor price. The scheme allows Liable Entities to comply by surrendering International Units (such as Certified Emissions Reductions), which will be subject to a surrender charge so that the floor price remains effective.

The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) is now evaluating the options for designing this surrender charge. The intention is to design a mechanism that is efficient, effective and workable. Climate Bridge is pleased to contribute to the debate, and looks forward to participating in a system that creates a well functioning trading scheme and promotes deep and liquid international markets.

The paper can be found here.

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