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Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2007 Report and Accounts For the year ended 31 December 2007 Climate Exchange plc - Report and Accounts Contents Executive Chairman’s Statement 2 Chief Executive’s Review 5 Climate Exchange Milestones 10 Operating and Financial Review 12 Report of the Directors 17 Corporate Governance Report 19 Report of the Audit Committee 22 Report of the Remuneration Committee 23 Statement of Directors’ responsibilities 24 Report of the Independent Auditors 25 Consolidated Income Statement 26 Consolidated Balance Sheet 27 Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity 28 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 29 Company Balance Sheet 30 Notes to the Financial Statements 31 Membership Information 48 Company Information 52 1 Executive Chairman’s Statement As we review your company’s performance and trade program was completed. over the past year and lay out our objectives It was called the Chicago Accord. for the coming year, I thought it would be During that period, we suffered from a helpful to share the history of the company series of material and disruptive events and its origins over the last 15 years to which had the potential to damage illustrate our objectives for 2008 and beyond. our business model. The U.S. refused to participate in the Kyoto Protocol eliminating all likelihood that the U.S. The origins of your Company would pass legislation which would require We were asked by the United Nations to companies to reduce their emissions deliver a paper on the feasibility of a anytime in the foreseeable future. Without market-based solution to global warming that, the probability of corporations joining at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro in a voluntary but legally binding cap and 1992. Climate change was a subject of trade program appeared negligible. Soon interest to a few scientists and economists. after that there was the terrorist event of Although the United States had passed 9/11, a war in Afghanistan, a crash in the legislation that enabled a cap and trade U.S. stock market, the implosion of Enron system to deal with acid rain, scepticism blamed on energy trading, a recession and of the role of emissions trading in ultimately the Iraq war. In spite of that environmental property rights remained series of events, in 2003, 14 courageous high across a wide spectrum of the public entities (13 corporations and the City of and private sectors. In the next nine years Chicago) became the founding members my colleagues and I wrote articles in the of the Chicago Climate Exchange (“CCX”). academic and popular press, testified in Ultimately that company sold 25% of its hearings at the U.S. Senate and White equity to Climate Exchange plc which raised House as well as before representatives £15 million through an Initial Public of cities and departments of European Offering on the AIM Division of the London governments. The Chicago Climate Stock Exchange. A second round of equity Exchange was a principal to finance followed a year later to finance the the first SO2 allowance trade recorded in European Climate Exchange (“ECX”) and the Environmental Protection Agency’s the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange Registry, and a broker of the first (“CCFE”). Both new exchanges faced cross-border trade in CO2 offsets by a enormous scepticism and competition. In U.S. company. The stage was set. 2006 the ownership of these exchanges In the year 2000 the pace accelerated. were merged and your company Climate We received a grant from the Chicago- Exchange plc (“Climate Excahnge”) became based Joyce Foundation to explore the the holding company. feasibility of developing a cap and trade market in the Upper Midwest of the A record performance for Climate U.S. for CO2 allowances and offsets. Exchange in 2007 After three years of intensive research and consensus building, a framework In 2007 your company unambiguously for a voluntary but legally binding cap became the global leader in environmental 2 Climate Exchange plc - Report and Accounts exchange traded markets in both volume National Petroleum Corporation Assets and profits. I am proud to report that all Management Co. Ltd. (CNPCAM) to three core businesses in the group were explore an emissions trading platform profitable at the pro-forma operating in China. level, and group pro-forma profits in total CCFE exhibited the greatest rate of exceeded £2.7 million. growth in the group with a trading ECX saw trading volume increase 128% volume increase of 719 % over 2006. over the same period in 2006 and had SO2 allowance futures and options on a market share of 85% among 9 futures lead the way. A NOX annual competing exchanges. Both membership contract was listed in advance of the and open interest reached record levels. 2009 mandated program. Other new Options on futures were successfully products included ECO futures, a introduced and exhibited significant renewable energy stock index based on growth. We also licensed a mini ECFI the PBW ETF. (European Carbon Financial Instrument) We launched the Insurance Futures and trading began with a rupee-based 200 Exchange Services Ltd (IFEX) in 2007. tonne contract on the Multi-Commodity IFEX lists binary options on U.S. hurricane Exchange of India. In July, we welcomed losses ranging from 10 to 50 billion Patrick Birley as ECX’s new Chief Executive. dollars. This product fits with our mission CCX volumes increased by 123% over to provide risk management tools related the same period in 2006. Membership to the environment and weather and increased from 238 in 2006 to 401 in serve our members in the energy sector. 2007. The baseline of our emitting At Group Board level we were also members exceeds 576 million tonnes and delighted to announce that Sir Brian constitutes 16% of the United States’ Williamson joined the main Board as a large stationary source emissions. By Non-executive Director. Sir Brian brings comparison the entire EU ETS baseline is a wealth of experience in the exchange approximately 2 billion tonnes. space and we are privileged that he CCX members constitute 11% of the accepted our invitation to join us. Fortune top 102 companies, 17% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 20% of the largest emitting power companies in The outlook for 2008 and beyond the U.S. CCX expanded its membership The trends that were established in 2007 internationally. Members now include 8 continued into 2008. In January ECX had Brazilian companies, 1 Chilean company, both a record day and record month. 5 Indian and 5 Chinese companies. The record for daily trading volume was In China, we were retained by the surpassed twice with the new record Ministry of Science and Technology and standing at almost 15 million tonnes. The the UN Development Programme to monthly record was also set in January advise them on carbon trading. In with 171 million tonnes traded (up from December, CCX signed a Memorandum the prior monthly record of 126 million of Understanding with the Chinese tonnes set in July 2007). Furthermore, 3 obstacles that existed regarding the At the outset of this statement, I stressed launch of a CER (Certified Emissions the history of your company. I did that to Reduction) futures contract were emphasize our ability to develop markets eliminated and a launch of that contract in the absence of national legislation took place in the first quarter of the year and to invent markets where there have rather than in the third quarter. been none before. We are about to operationalize national policy in Canada CCX had similar experiences with both with a 2008 launch of the first Canadian single day and monthly records. On 11 carbon futures contract on the Montréal February 2008, a record 2.4 million tonnes Climate Exchange, our joint venture with were traded in one day (the previous the TMX Group (formerly the Montréal one-day record was nearly 1.3 million Bourse). We continue to pursue the tonnes set on February 6, 2008). development of voluntary markets in February’s monthly volume exceeded the places like China and India where we are, previous monthly trading record of 3.7 again, having a humble but promising million tonnes by more than 6 million start. Given the magnitude of the issue tonnes. CCFE also began with a and the initial corporate and public spectacular start. January’s trading volume responses, we hope that these voluntary reached 55,350 contracts, surpassing the systems will, at some point in the future, previous monthly record of 36,098 match or exceed our success in the U.S. contracts set in October 2007. We are very hopeful and believe that The current political climate in the U.S. the suite of products on IFEX will enable also appears to have shifted dramatically it to expand and become a major toward a prevalent belief that there will exchange in weather derivatives. There be a cap and trade law sometime in are also opportunities in the longer run the near future. The current bipartisan in water quality and quantity issues which Warner-Lieberman bill is calling for we continue to research. dramatic reductions and a baseline of over 6 billion tonnes. This would In conclusion, 2007 has been a remarkable represent a market three times the size year for Climate Exchange. Its success is of Europe. Your company is well ultimately due to our members and positioned to emerge as the leading customers. Your management team in exchange in this sector. both Europe and North America has been outstanding. On a personal note, special We believe that both the current growth thanks are due to Neil Eckert the CEO of and future potential of our chosen Climate Exchange.
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