ClearBlue Markets is excited to announce its new President, Fiona Oliver-Glasford. Fiona has joined the team with 20+ years of experience in energy and carbon.

Most recently, Fiona worked at South Africa’s Sasol as the VP, Low Carbon Energy Solutions. Prior to that, Fiona led a team accountable for Enbridge Gas Inc’s carbon compliance obligation originally captured through Ontario’s participation with California and Quebec in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) and then subsequently through the Canadian Federal Carbon Pricing Program and Ontario’s Emission Performance System.

Read more: https://www.clearbluemarkets.com/post/clearblue-markets-welcomes-fiona-oliver-glasford-president-clearblue-markets

In this year’s Energy Entrepreneurs: State of the Market report, we benchmark UK independent renewable generation capacity and explore the role of energy entrepreneurs across the generation, business and transport sectors in the push to net-zero. Here are five key insights from the report, which is now available to download in full or as a quick 5-minute digest.

Read more: https://www.smartestenergy.com/en_gb/info-hub/blog/5-key-insights-from-our-new-energy-entrepreneurs-state-of-the-market-report/

Nodal Exchange and IncubEx today announced the upcoming launch of four brand new environmental futures on January 7, 2022, bringing the largest market for environmental products in the world to 100 futures and options contracts.

Pending regulatory review, Nodal will list physically-delivered futures contracts on:

• California Carbon Offset 8 Futures
• California Carbon Offset 0 Futures
• Maine Class 1A REC Futures
• Massachusetts CES-E Futures

Read more: https://theincubex.com/2021/12/nodal-and-incubex-expand-exchange-listed-environmental-derivatives-suite/

With just a few days of 2021 left, we thought we’d highlight just a few moments from this past year that stood out to us here at Delta. Of course, we can’t capture it all in one blog post: every community workshop, every tree planted, every soil health test …

What we can share, however, is our gratitude for all our donors and partners who have supported this work throughout this past year–let alone those who have been supporting us for longer throughout Delta’s 23-year history of collaborating to solve complex environmental challenges!

Read more: https://delta-institute.org/2021-a-year-in-review/

A cultural shift has rippled across the global economy, sending every corporation, university, and government scrambling to address climate-change risks. It’s a movement that environmentalists have dreamed of, and an opportunity that Xpansiv market CBL has planned for.

The clearest path to immediate action involves voluntary emissions offset credits—a way for firms to help finance emissions-reduction projects while they determine how best to implement long-term, sustainable practices.}

Read more: https://xpansiv.com/scaling-global-climate-solutions/

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, announced that Glacier Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: GBCI) has completed its listing transfer and will begin trading today as an NYSE-listed company.

Glacier Bancorp, the parent company for Glacier Bank and its bank divisions, will now be able to leverage all of the advantages of membership in the NYSE community.

Read more: https://ir.theice.com/press/news-details/2021/Glacier-Bancorp-Inc.-Completes-Listing-Transfer-to-the-New-York-Stock-Exchange/default.aspx

A consortium of energy industry companies has finalized an innovative gas supply agreement that will bring responsibly sourced natural gas, as certified by Equitable Origin’s EO100™ Standard for Responsible Energy Development, to end users. The supply agreement between international energy company Uniper, Calgary-based gas producer Vermilion Energy and Rockpoint Gas Storage on behalf of its wholesale natural gas supplier, Access Gas Services, is the first of its kind for Rockpoint and Uniper.

Read more: https://www.uniper.energy/news/uniper-vermilion-energy-and-rockpoint-gas-storage-canada-ltd-complete-certified-natural-gas-supply-agreement-in-canada

ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced the quarterly rebalance of the NYSE^® FANG+™ Index, which is effective before the open of trading on Monday, December 20, 2021.

The NYSE FANG+™ Index is an equal-dollar weighted index with the objective of tracking the performance of highly traded growth stocks of technology and tech-enabled companies in the technology, media & communications and consumer discretionary sectors. It has historically included the key FAANG stocks — Facebook (Meta Platforms), Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet) — as well as other related companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, NVIDIA, Tesla and Twitter.

Read more: https://ir.theice.com/press/news-details/2021/ICE-Announces-Quarterly-Rebalance-Changes-in-the-NYSE-FANG-Index/default.aspx

ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced the annual reconstitution of the ICE Biotechnology Index (ICEBIO), which is effective before the open of trading on Monday, December 20, 2021.

The ICE Biotechnology Index tracks the performance of qualifying U.S. listed biotechnology companies classified within the Biotechnology Sub-Industry Group of the ICE Uniform Sector Classification schema, which is a multi-asset class industry classification taxonomy developed by ICE. The index includes companies that are engaged in the research and development of therapeutic treatments but are not focused on the commercialization and mass production of pharmaceutical drugs. The index also includes companies that are engaged in the production of tools or systems that enable biotechnology processes.

Read more: https://ir.theice.com/press/news-details/2021/ICE-Announces-Annual-Reconstitution-Changes-in-the-ICE-Biotechnology-Index/default.aspx

ClearBlue Markets is honored to announce that as a result of your support, the Environmental Finance Magazine’s 22nd Annual Market Rankings recognizes our team with several accolades:

• Best Advisory/Consultancy in North American Carbon Markets (All) and (California) for the fourth year in a row

• Best Advisory/Consultancy in Chinese Carbon Markets for a second consecutive year

• ClearBlue was also runner-up as Best Advisory/Consultancy in the EU ETS Carbon Market and Kyoto Project Credits (JI and CDM).