An efficient and secure registry is key. It enables authenticity of the credits, prevents double selling and manages reporting and retirement obligations.

To ensure confidence and support secondary market activity, a quality registry must be fully integrated into financial market infrastructure enabling low-cost efficient secondary market participation.

Managing your Environmental Assets

As the global trend in managing environmental assets moves towards price based mechanisms, a robust, global registry is an essential tool to provide transparency and credibility.

Effective and efficient financial-market-based registry solutions will become even more important as restrictions on carbon and other environmental assets are further tightened by Governments, and the voluntary market plays more of a part in reducing global emissions and improving environmental conditions. Only credible and robust financial infrastructure (with inherent flexibility) will best serve this fast growing marketplace.

The Markit Environmental Registry provides critical market capability including issuance, holdings, transfers, retirement services, and financial market requirements such as straight through processing including delivery versus payment.

The Markit Environmental Registry has been designed to accommodate the needs of a diverse range of customers:

• Large multi-national investment banks
• Retail and Commercial banks
• Project funders
• Project Developers
• Environmental Asset Traders
• Large Traders and Brokers
• Large Commercial compliance emitters (energy companies, industrial processors etc)
• Large Commercial enterprises for CSR, speculation and commercial purposes
• Governments, NGO's, Not-For-Profit Organisations
• Individuals, small companies and consumers