Evolution Markets is the largest global broker of environmental products.
The company structures transactions in the environmental credit,
renewable energy, weather derivative, and over the counter (OTC)
coal, natural gas, and uranium markets. Evolution Markets personnel
are pioneers in energy and environmental markets having facilitated
the first trades in SO2 allowances, NOx allowances, ERCs in several
states, greenhouse gas emissions, weather derivatives, and OTC
coal trades. The company specializes in carbon finance, and the
greenhouse gas brokerage and advisory team has closed some of the
most important domestic and international GHG transactions, including
the first trade under the Kyoto Protocol’s emissions trading
program, the first brokered trade of European Emission Allowances,
the first trade of 2008 EU allowances, the first EU allowance option
trade, and some of the carbon market’s first indexed CER
trades. www.evomarkets.com
Products
Evolution Markets Emissions Brokerage Services
Evolution Markets’ core competency is to provide professional
brokerage services through innovation and leadership in all environmental
markets. As a leading broker of global greenhouse emissions transactions,
Evolution Markets’ brings together buyers and sellers in an
efficient over-the-counter carbon trading marketplace. Evolution
Markets’ principals were involved from the early days in brokering
new environmental commodities such as SO2, NOx, greenhouse gas emission
reductions, weather derivatives and renewable energy certificates.
Evolution Markets is applying its skills, experience, and innovative
thinking to provide clients in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) commodities
market with the optimal transaction structures and advice to create
liquidity in the marketplace.
In addition to pure brokerage services, Evolution Markets’ Greenhouse
Gas Desk leverages its deep understanding of the greenhouse gas marketplace,
the tradable carbon commodities, and the surrounding environmental
policies to provide transaction focused advisory services. Evolution
Markets helps clients evaluate and find (or create) the best commodities
according to their capacity and requirements.
Evolution Markets also offers what is commonly called “carbon
finance” support. Carbon Finance simply means using the value
of future emission reductions to help finance emission reduction
projects. Evolution Markets helps project developers and sponsors
approach lenders and attract investors. Evolution Markets assists
both lenders and investors in incorporating the value of greenhouse
gas emission reductions in project cash flow projections and designing
solutions to finance projects taking advantage of the emission markets.
Most importantly, Evolution Markets has experience in creating sophisticated
transaction structures such as vendor finance solutions involving
carbon credits, back-to-back transactions, carbon barter trades,
credit enhancement sales, project-backed early crediting, and other
innovative transaction structures requirements.
Overseas Office
Evolution Markets has offices in London, Bratislava, Prague, New
York and San Francisco. The company provides advisory and brokerage
services to greenhouse gas market participants in Europe, Asia,
Africa, Latin America, and North America. Through Evolution Menert
(www.evomenert.com), a joint venture with Slovak energy and environmental
engineering consultants MENERT spol. s r.o., and other strategic
partnerships, Evolution Markets is building carbon reduction
capacity in Central and Eastern Europe.
