Sponsors

EcoSecurities is one of the world's leading companies in the business of originating, developing and trading carbon credits. The last 10 years has seen EcoSecurities involved in the development of many of the global carbon market's most important milestones, including developing the world's first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol, and the first to be issued with carbon credits. Today, the company is working on 374 projects in 36 countries using 18 different technologies, with the potential to generate more than 163 million carbon credits. In 2006, EcoSecurities was voted 'Best CDM/JI Project Developer' by both Point Carbon and Environmental Finance magazine.

Ernst & Young has a dedicated team of 60 renewable energy finance specialists, supported by a global network of experienced contacts in tax, transaction advisory services, valuation from business modelling and assurance.

With over 15 years experience spanning all renewable technologies the team’s expertise is in the biofuels, biomass and energy from waste sectors, including a number of current lead advisory, project finance, structuring and equity raising assignments.

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Taylor Wessing's Climate Change Group has extensive expertise in technology development, venture capital, private equity, project development and finance and carbon trading. We manage our combination of strengths to fulfil all of our clients' legal needs and expectations in this sector, ranging from technology commercialisation to large scale project development and finance.

Starsupply Renewables is the leading brokerage firm in renewable energy, facilitating trades in the physical and derivative renewable energy markets. We provide market liquidity and price discovery in biofuels such as biodiesel, ethanol and other green fuels and related products. 

Starsupply Renewables offers a full scope of intermediary services to commercial and financial institutions around the world, including oil corporations, refiners, trading companies, investment banks, utilities and large end-users.

Starsupply is a co-founder of the energy brokers association.