BGC Environmental Brokerage Services
1 Seaport Plaza 199 Water Street, 19th Floor, United States

BGC Environmental Brokerage Services

What we do:

BGC Environmental Brokerage Services, L.P. is a leading global provider of financial services to the world’s environmental and green energy markets. We offer transaction services, access to finance, advice, and technology to clients across the world.  We:

• Match buyers and sellers of environmental credits
• Provide continuous and customized auctions
• Arrange for forward sales which provide revenues that can be used to finance projects
• Facilitate hedge strategy execution
• Clear transactions to minimize performance and delivery risk 
• Provide environmental credit market analysis
• Develop CDM and voluntary carbon quantification methodology development
• Screen projects and conduct feasibility assessments
• Develop project documentation
• Coordinate and manage credit approval processes
• Provide technology advice
• Contribute to equity investment fund advice
• Assist in corporate sustainability strategy development 
• Provide policy consulting
• Guide the development of integrated greenhouse gas and energy management strategies
• Assist in the assessment of corporate, organization, and event emissions footprints

Formerly known as CantorCO2e, L.P., we became BGC Environmental Brokerage Services in August 2011 following the acquisition of our North American business by BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial markets. BGCP has offices in 25 cities around the world.  This global, yet local presence across the world, together with the unique experience of our staff, enables us to provide a level of service that few can match.

BGC helps people across the world to manage the financial aspects of their energy and environmental choices.  In North America and Europe this means providing professional brokerage services to the energy and environmental commodity markets, and elsewhere around the world this means bringing our expertise, money, and technology to projects that reduce emissions.

BGC serves all of the world’s principal emissions markets, including the Kyoto markets (CDM, JI and European emissions trading), the USA compliance markets, and the voluntary carbon market.  We help companies transact via electronic trading screens, recorded telephone lines, auctions and negotiated contracts.  We broker green energy products, advise equity investment funds on carbon finance, introduce investors to projects, and structure forward sales to enable project developers to fund their investments.  We help ‘clean-tech’ technology developers to manage their intellectual property, to develop their licensing strategies, and to roll out their technologies through our global network.  All in all, an integrated set of services to bring environmental commodities to market, and to help our clients manage their energy and environmental risks world-wide. In addition to assisting clients in the marketing, selling and buying of credits, BGC staff possess expertise in protocol development, including the execution of and/or participation in the Clean Development Mechanism.

BGC Environmental Brokerage Services is a division of BGC Capital Markets, L.P.  Formerly known as CantorCO2e, L.P., we became BGC Environmental Brokerage Services. L.P. in August 2011 following the acquisition of our North American business by BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial markets. 

Our roots began in 1992 and since then we have grown to become a leading environmental brokerage company that has brokered numerous trades with a market value exceeding $10 billion.

BGC uniquely offers transaction services to clients engaged in using energy and managing emissions across the world -- a truly integrated approach that is necessary to effectively help preserve our environment.

BGC’s philosophy is that long-term change in the way in which we use energy, and our collective impact on our environment, cannot happen without the involvement of the world’s capital markets – it takes money to finance change.  Of course money alone is not enough, you also need to ensure the environmental integrity of what you are doing, and to do this on a large scale requires organization.  BGC – its staff and its predecessors - has been at the forefront of the development of environmental markets since they were first conceived.  We have given thousands of hours of our time to develop markets that work financially, while maintaining environmental integrity.  We have helped design all of the world’s major environmental trading schemes – we have developed market rules, developed methodologies, advised on standards – and of course we have been instrumental in transferring billions of dollars to environmental projects world-wide. 

EMISSIONS

Overview

Moving money to protect the environment has been BGC Environmental Brokerage Services core business since we first delivered emissions trading services in 1992.  The idea behind emissions trading is simple - a regulatory body places a cap on emissions, and emissions trading allows the economy the maximum flexibility in meeting that cap. In this way an agreed emissions goal is reached at minimum economic cost.  This is important because in the real world which we inhabit, politicians don't support measures that can lose them their seat - so affordability AND performance are key requirements to legislation.  Emissions trading delivers environmental improvement and minimizes economic disruption. In this way, we actually achieve more environmental improvements, in a shorter amount of time, and at less cost.

In the US sulphur dioxide (SO2) markets for example (SO2 is a key component of acid rain), emissions have been reduced by over 85%, at an economic cost of around 10% of the cost forecasts that were made when the program began.  Early signs are that carbon emissions trading has the potential to achieve such spectacular results, but on a global scale.