Gold sponsors:

BNY Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 34 countries and serving more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $22.3 trillion in assets under custody and administration, $1.1 trillion in assets under management, services $12 trillion in outstanding debt and processes global payments averaging $1.6 trillion per day.

CDC Climat is a Caisse des Dépôts subsidiary set up in February 2010 to combat climate change. On the strength of its experience in Europe, it supports the introduction of international, national and regional climate policies, by taking action in three areas:
- It develops, either alone or with its partners, secured carbon market services: registries and solutions for carbon assets trading and custody, exchanges, MRV systems.
- CDC Climat invests in carbon assets either directly or in the form of innovative funds open to other long-term investors.
- Its research team, CDC Climat Research, conducts independent, non for profit analyses for public authorities, market players and the general public.

Greenmarket – the fast carbon exchange - is the commodity segment of Munich-based Bayerische Boerse AG.  The trading platform offers all members access to an unlimited number of market participants without taking any counterparty risk.  Greenmarket’s reference principle shows the tightest bid-and-ask-spreads with a guaranteed liquidity. Thus, financial institutions as well as energy suppliers can execute their trading strategies on the spot market. No other trading facility has a fully automated straight through trading, clearing and settlement process that enables every trader to react within seconds on market changes.

Silver sponsors:

First Climate is one of the leading carbon asset management companies. With offices on five continents and more than 10 years’ experience in the market, it is one of the few intermediaries to cover the entire carbon credit value chain. First Climate develops, finances, and implements CDM, JI, and VER projects, purchases the resulting carbon credits, and customizes trading solutions for companies subject to the EU ETS. As investment advisor to several institutional investors, First Climate structures and develops carbon funds and related products. In the voluntary market, the company provides VERs verified according to the highest international standards. First Climate is one of the main sponsors of the Gold Standard Version 2.

The Green Exchange LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Exchange Holdings LLC, which is a venture between several leading global banks, environmental brokerage firms, trading firms, and the world’s largest futures and options exchange, specifically Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Constellation NewEnergy, Credit Suisse First Boston Next Fund, Evolution Markets, Goldman Sachs, ICAP Energy, J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy, Morgan Stanley Capital Group, RNK Capital; Spectron Energy, TFS Energy, Tudor Investment and Vitol.  NYMEX®, the world’s premier energy exchange, was originally a founding member of the consortium and was acquired by CME Group™ in August 2008.  CME Marketing Europe Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group Inc.  The Green Exchange LLC was formed to build a comprehensive, global environmental marketplace.  The Green Exchange LLC, headquartered in New York City, will be a trading platform for European and North American environmental commodity futures and options products.