IETA side event in Durban: 2012, the Year of the Dragon: Role of Chinese Emissions Trading Schemes in the Future of Global Carbon Markets

ollowing the announcement that China will, prior to 2013, develop pilot emissions trading schemes in four cities (Beijing, Chongquig, Shanghai and Tianjin) and two regions (Hubei and Guangdong) 2012 will indeed be the Year of the Dragon for carbon markets.

GreenStream is carbon finance partner for one of the world’s largest solar photovoltaic power projects

GreenStream provides services for the generation and capitalisation of carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol to one of the world’s biggest solar photovoltaic power projects, the Ohotnikovo Power Station developed by Activ Solar.

GreenStream Network Plc strengthens its management to facilitate continued growth

Dr. Jussi Nykänen, founding partner of GreenStream, has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Board, M.Sc (Econ) Markku Ahponen as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and PhD Pirita Mikkanen as the Executive Vice President, Climate Services.

Investments from Neste Oil and Eesti Energia in the Climate Opportunity Fund bring GreenStream’s assets under management to 170 MEUR

GreenStream is managing 4 proprietary carbon funds. Following the recent investments of Finnish refining company Neste Oil and Estonian state-owned energy company Eesti Energia AS into the post-2012 Climate Opportunity Fund, GreenStream has increased its assets under management to approximately 170 MEUR.

GreenStream to launch China fund

GreenStream Network aims to raise a €200 million ($285 million) fund to invest in projects in China. Helsinki-based GreenStream plans to launch the fund in early 2012, Tomas Otterström told Carbon Finance. “We’re focusing on three mega-trends,” he said. “China, renewable energy and climate change.”

GreenStream raising €50m climate markets fund

Nordic carbon asset management firm GreenStream Network is aiming to raise initially up to €50 million ($72 million) into a fund that targets superior returns from trading carbon and potentially other environmental commodities.

GreenStream’s Chinese wind power project pipeline grows fast; hydro projects contracted by GreenStream’s carbon funds the first ones to be CDM-registered for Finnish private firm

GreenStream’s Chinese wind power project pipeline grows fast; hydro projects contracted by GreenStream’s carbon funds the first ones to be CDM-registered for Finnish private firm.

GreenStream is Broker of the year 2010

In the annual market survey of Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance -magazine, GreenStream Network Plc has been voted the “Best Broker of the Year 2010 in the category Renewable Energy Certificates – Europe ex-UK”.

GreenStream signs the Principles for Responsible Investment

The Principles for Responsible Investments are an integral part of GreenStream’s business, as the Company’s vision is a world where climate change is sustainable.