Mercuria CSR Report 2021 - Flipbook - Page 36
A FOCUS ON
OUR WORLD
Environmental products
Voluntary and compliance carbon markets are expalnding and impacting the broader energy ecosystem.
Mercuria dramatically broadened its environmental activities during 2021, our company operates in
most global carbon markets, including the expanding voluntary offset space, and the widening clean
fuels markets. This expansion provides new and existing customers with access to carbon-free or lowCO2 products to help fulfill the increasingly growing demand for environmental commodities.
Amid increasing attention to climate change issues and fueled by our deep concern for the future of
the world that we live in, Mercuria has positioned itself at the forefront of the energy transition in the
short and the long term. These operations will increasingly impact power, natural gas, crude oil, and
LNG businesses in the coming decades and we do not believe that you can price these commodities
going forward without a full understanding of and involvement in the environmental products markets.
The company is also actively watching the proposed China Emissions Trading System, which will be the
world’s largest compliance-grade market once implemented later this year.
In the voluntary space, Mercuria is building a global portfolio of voluntary carbon offsets to help satisfy
growing corporate demand that is expected to steadily increase over the coming decade as companies
seek to deliver on their Net-Zero commitments.
Aligned with that rising corporate offset demand, Mercuria remains active in the Global Emissions
Offset (GEO) and Nature-based Global Emissions Offset (N-GEO) futures trading launched by Chicago
Mercantile Exchange in 2021. Both contracts saw steady rises over 2021 as more investors flocked to
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