Current Edition of Climate Change Business Journal®

Carbon Capture & Storage
May 2008
Volume 1, Number 5

Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) is a nascent business, but likely will represent a market of $100 billion worldwide when it starts to mature between 2020 and 2030. Already technology developers and project managment firms have taken the lead, and CCBJ’s May 2008 edition focuses on the issues and companies behind CCS. A market and cost forecast for CCS is presented, derived from a variety of sources including influential studies by MIT and the U.N. IPCC. Dedicated sections then examine the companies and technical, business and policy issues shaping design & construction, storage & monitoring, equipment and power and coal companies on the leading edge of CCS.

Inside this edition

• CCS Market Review
  
• Technology & EPC Vendors
  
• Storage Infrastructure
  
• Post-Combustion Firms
  
• Profiles of Leaders

Companies
Air Products, Alstom, AJW, Alcoa, Babcock & Wilcox, BASF, Bechtel, Blue Source, Carbozyme, Dow, EPRI, Ecology & Environment, Fluor, GE, ICF, Kerr-McGee, Linde, Lurgi, Marsh, NRG Energy, Purenergy, MJ Bradley, Mitsubishi, Powerspan, Suncor and Siemens.

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Solar Energy
March/April 2008
Volume 1, Number 3/4

The solar energy industry grew 38% in 2007 and generated $23 billion in global revenues, according to CCBJ research. While it still represents only 0.1% of global electricity generation, solar is quickly expanding share.

Inside this edition:

• Cover story details the CCBJ quantification of the solar energy industry, illustrated with charts forecasting future growth, and revenue estimates for the photovoltaics, concentrated solar and solar hot water segments. Plus estimates for the electricity value generated by each. Ranking of market drivers for the solar energy industry and other insights from a proprietary CCBJ survey of more than 60 solar companies.
  
• Overview and analysis of the photovoltaics market
  
• Review of concentrated solar power (CSP): Cutting edge technology; projects take off in U.S. and Spain
  
• Venture capitalists discuss opportunities in the solar business
  
• Market makers: Integrators and deal specialists ease PV’s large capital cost
  
• Pioneering states craft performance-based programs
  
• Summary of solar water markets in U.S., Europe and Canada
  
• Cutting-edge businesses and financing models reshape PV and solar water heating markets.
  
• Profiles of manufacturers, project developers and utilities

Companies:
Abengoa Solar, Acciona Solar Power, Alternate Energy Technologies, Ausra, Black & Veatch, BP Solar, BrightSource, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Cyrium Technologies, DRI Energy, EnerWorks, ENSR, Fire Mountain Solar, First Solar, FPL Group, Harper Lake, PV Energy Systems, SkyFuel, Solar PST, SolarWorld California, Sterling Planet, Stirling Energy, Sun Earth, Sun Edison, Sun Run, Sunlight Electric, SunPower, Suntech, VantagePoint Partners, Xantrex, Xcel Energy

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Carbon Markets & Climate Change Consulting
Volume 1, Number 1/2
January/February 2008

This inaugural edition introduces readers to the CCBJ segmentation of the Climate Change Industry and focuses in depth on both the regulated carbon market and the voluntary offset market.

Inside this edition:

• Carbon markets overview: Snapshot of the carbon market characterizes all major players in the segment--emission generators, credit and offset providers, traders, exchange operators, carbon fund managers and summarizes a range of business models. Unit and price estimates and growth forecasts. Analysis of the 2007 market shows regulatory uncertainty is no barrier to the rapid growth of emissions trading, and new schemes are emerging to satisfy market demand for credits and offsets.
  
• Transaction specialist brings together buyers and sellers in greenhouse gas emissions trading
  
• Consultants report dramatic surge in climate change business, develop carbon commerce practices and emissions trading expertise as global warming moves center stage.
  
• Brokerage performance illustrates exploding market for carbon brokerage services.
  
• Profiles of voluntary offset suppliers
  
• Critial link in emissions trading: Experts compare U.S. and European approaches to verifying greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
  
• Guide to emissions trading and glossary of carbon market terminology
  
• Overview of agriculture and forestry offsets
  

Companies: AER’X, AgraGate, Blue Source, CantorCO2e, Cantor Environmental Brokerage, Cantor Fitzgerald, CarbonZero, co2balance, Credit Suisse, Eastern Research, EcoSecurities Group, Ecosystem Restoration Associates, ENVIRON, ERM, Evolution Markets, ICF International, MJ Bradley, Morgan Stanley, New Carbon Finance, Pacific Forest Trust, Point Carbon, SAIC, SGS Group, Stratus Consulting, The CarbonNeutral Co., The Climate Trust, EcoSystem Marketplace, World Bank, Winrock and more.

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Coming in 2008:

Annual Overview of the Climate Change Industry, 2008
November/December 2008
Volume 1, Number 11/12

Inside this Special Edition:
Our annual round-up of figures and forecasts. We characterize how the Climate Change Industry is taking shape and why apparently disparate segments will rapidly coalesce around the imperative of carbon control. We revisit in detail the CCBJ mission and offer a groundbreaking qualitative and quantitative assessment of the segments we define as the Climate Change Industry:

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