{"id":84,"date":"2007-09-26T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-10-01T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T13:15:35","slug":"carbon-auction-on-regulated-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/carbon-auction-on-regulated-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon auction on regulated exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7015171.stm\">carbon auction held on a regulated exchange<\/a> just concluded in Brazil.  800,000 tonnes of carbon rights were sold by the City of Sao Paolo which is earning them from power generation from methane released by a massive urban landfill.  The winning bidder, Fortis a European bank, paid \u20ac 13 million or about \u20ac 16.25 per tonne; carbon is now trading around \u20ac 21 per tonne so it seems like a good investment.  The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange expects to have another 10 carbon auctions in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first carbon auction held on a regulated exchange just concluded in Brazil. 800,000 tonnes of carbon rights were sold by the City of Sao Paolo which is earning them from power generation from methane released by a massive urban landfill. The winning bidder, Fortis a European bank, paid \u20ac 13 million or about \u20ac &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/carbon-auction-on-regulated-exchange\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carbon auction on regulated exchange<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange","category-responsible-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-1m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}