Business details

Carbon Market Data was created in February 2006 (first registered in Belize, then registered in the United Kingdom since 12 July 2007 – Company registration number: 06310483).

The company launched in March 2006 the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Database, gathering data on the 11,000 industrial facilities participating to the EU cap-and-trade programme. Then, in 2007, we launched the EU ETS Company Database, which displays data at company level, showing in particular the company’s surplus or shortage of free carbon allowances (and therefore the financial impact).

Every year, we publish the EU ETS Company Rankings, which provides an insight on the largest players in the EU ETS market (largest CO2 emitting companies, companies with the largest surplus and shortage of free carbon allowances).

In 2009, Carbon Market Data partnered with ThomsonReuters and included into the ThomsonReuters interface the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Database.

We later launched the World Carbon Market Database, which included data on a number of carbon markets across the globe.

In total, more than 13,000 people have subscribed to our data platform since the start of our business (representing currently around 5,000 active users with a valid email address).

Please find below more information on the different products of our carbon information solution:

EU ETS Installation Database : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/world-ets-database/eu-ets

EEA ETS Installation Database : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/world-ets-database/eea-ets

EU ETS Company Database : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/eu-ets-companies-database/presentation

EU ETS Company Rankings : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/eu-ets-companies-database/company-rankings

Aviation ETS Database : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/world-ets-database/aviation

World Carbon Market Database : https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/products/world-ets-database/presentation

Carbon Market Data has also been well present in the media along the years. Here is below a non-exhaustive list of press articles referring to Carbon Market Data :

https://carbonmarketdata.com/en/cmd-in-the-media

Which business model do we propose for the future owner of Carbon Market Data ?

The carbon markets (cap-and-trade programmes, carbon offset schemes) have been developing rapidly in the recent years and new carbon markets are planned in a large number of countries in the near future. This will create huge opportunities for carbon project developers, carbon traders, which in turn will drive a demand for a better market information and transparency through data platforms such as the World Carbon Market Database.

For your information, in the following link (IETA website) is shown a list of current and planned carbon markets:

https://www.ieta.org/resources/carbon-market-business-briefs/

Though, this list is not up-to-date and is far from being exhaustive, as many other countries are planning to develop national emissions trading schemes or carbon offset programmes (examples : Argentina, Brazil, Brunei, India, Caribbean Islands, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Serbia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vietnam).

The carbon market growth is also driving the demand for the supply of carbon pricing data (price of a carbon quota in a specific emissions trading scheme, as well as prices of carbon offsets).

In summary, the business model of the company taking over Carbon Market Data could be :

-             To develop a comprehensive World Carbon Market Database

-             To provide carbon price data offerings (live data feeds)

-             To produce or relay news articles (from third parties) related to carbon markets and the energy transition

-             To develop sales on cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, …).

-              To propose consulting services (on carbon markets and related themes such as renewable energy, biodiversity, etc...)

List of company’s assets :

-             Large registered user database (5,000 active users with a valid email address – in total, 13,000 users have registered to our data platform since the company launch)

-             Client base

-             Domain name : carbonmarketdata.com

-             Online presence since February 2006 (Strong Google ranking, external links, number of daily visitors)

-             Solid brand knowledge across the market (carbon traders and brokers, institute and university researchers, energy and business consultants, asset managers and investment companies, journalists, …)

-             Broad and historical presence in the media (at international level: Japan, Europe, North America), as well as in research papers as a data source (universities, research institutes)

-             Website : User-friendly databases developed with open source tools (PHP, LAMP environment)

-             Carbon registry data archived since 2006

-             Current managers will be available to help the new management for a smooth transition and for practical, technical and business strategy advice.

The business is self-funded and has no outstanding debt/loan.

Shareholding structure : 2 shareholders each holding 50% of the company's shares.