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EcoSecuritiesEcoSecurities is a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading emission reduction credits. With a network of offices and representatives in more than 20 countries on five continents, EcoSecurities has amassed one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of emission reduction projects in the world. EcoSecurities has been involved in the development of many of the global carbon market’s most important milestones, including developing the world’s first CDM project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol and the first to receive issued credits.EcoSecurities has been deeply involved in cook stove-related carbon trading projects since the early days of the carbon market. EcoSecurities developed the baseline for the first ever cooking stove project to be registered under the CDM, the biogas support programme (BSP) project in Nepal, in 2004. The company has been at the forefront of efforts to gain approval for CDM methodologies for 'non-renewable biomass' cooking stove projects, for instance co-hosting the Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop (Oxford University, November 2005) and the Bioenergy and CDM side event at COP 12 in Nairobi, November 2006, and making numerous submissions to the Executive Board (EB) of the CDM. The result of these efforts was eventual adoption of non-renewable biomass methodologies by the CDM in 2008. EcoSecurities has strong technical knowledge and capacity in the fields of cooking stoves, bioenergy, forestry, household appliances and micro-finance. For example, Jonathan Avis wrote his masters’ thesis on the potential for cooking stoves in carbon trading and has since become a leading expert on methodological issues with five years of experience in the sector. Jan Fehse has over 10 years of experience in the carbon forestry sector, including methodological aspects of assessing deforestation and degradation caused by fuel wood collection, which are of direct relevance to the quantification of emission reductions from improved cooking stoves. In 2007, EcoSecurities was voted ‘Best CDM/JI Project Developer – Kyoto Project Credits’ by readers of Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance magazines, alongside the award for ‘Best Advisory – Kyoto Project Credits’ for the seventh year in a row. New Energy Finance also named EcoSecurities as ‘Top Carbon Off-taker by Number of Deals’ in their 2007 Clean Energy League Tables. | |
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