Investors buy emission rights – FAZ report on CAP2

To achieve a real impact for the future, you need an approach that meets the following requirements: 👉 transparent 👉 scalable 👉 free from manipulation 👉 100% efficiency 👉 absolute security Philipp Krohn from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung presents a way to achieve a real CO2 impact with financial products: with CAP2 Reducing instead of offsetting through the retirement of European emission rights. A contribution to climate protection explained in concrete terms using the example of CAP2 in cooperation with the Climate Concept Foundation. Click here to read the full article in pdf-format “Investoren kaufen Emissionsrechte” Or read it online …

Live-Interview with Hanjo Allinger

Thanks to Marlies Mohr of the Vorarlberger Nachrichten for this interview on the sidelines of this year’s Economic Forum in Bregenz.

Private Banking Interview with Jasperneite and Leber (Acatis)

“Only our approach really eliminates CO2 emissions”, say Christian Jasperneite and Hendrik Leber (Acatis) in the private banking interview. Together with the company Cap2, Acatis wants to make funds climate neutral. The head of the asset manager, Hendrik Leber, and Cap2 founder Christian Jasperneite explain how this works in an interview with private banking magazin. A conversation about I deologies, possible imitators and the power of Brussels bureaucracy.   private banking magazin: Mr. Jasperneite, I come to you as a private client with the wish that my portfolio becomes climate neutral. How would you go about that with Cap2? Christian …

Extensive press coverage after launch with ACATIS

After ACATIS Investment KVG mbH started last week to neutralize the CO2 emissions of the first funds with CAP2, it was extensively reported in the press. We cap the emissions of the companies held in the funds by permanently retiring European Emission Allowances (EUA). As the rights are withdrawn, emissions in Europe are reduced and the funds become carbon neutral. Click here to read the articles: https://www.private-banking-magazin.de/emissionsrechte-esg-co2-so-will-acatis-investment-co2-emissionen-fuer/ https://www.fundview.de/posts/2022/08/2022-08-26-acatis-neutralisiert-co2-emissionen-in-zwei-fonds.html https://m.fondsprofessionell.de/newssingle.php?uid=218050&rd=1 https://www.pressebox.de/inaktiv/acatis-investment-gmbh/acatis-investment-neutralisiert-co2-emissionen-fuer-erste-fonds/boxid/1125213

Climate-neutral portfolios through set-aside emission rights

From Absolute.Impact 02/22: It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of the numerous offers of climate protection measures and to separate the wheat from the chaff. Does one really make a lasting contribution to reducing global emissions if one wants to clean up one’s own CO2 footprint with compensation certificates from hydroelectric power plants that were built in India years ago? What contribution can participation in tree-planting projects in the rainforest make? Doubts are justified. If the power plant has already been built, the cheaply traded certificates will only redistribute the glory of days gone by. This does not …

Poland’s problems with emissions trading are homemade

Poland’s problems with emissions trading are homemade There is no better proof of the impact of European emissions trading than the protest of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. No country in Europe produces more hard coal than Poland. More than 70 percent of Poland’s electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Worse, the country’s 100 or so power plants are on average about 40 years old and emit far more greenhouse gases than modern power plants. More than 160 million tons of CO2 were emitted by them per year at last count. Three more coal-fired power plants, emitting around 4 million …

The number of emission rights must fall

Citywire, 11/29/2021 Hanjo Allinger, professor of economics at TH Deggendorf and managing director of CAP2, talks about the difficulty of sustainable investments. After the resolutions of the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris came into force in January, it is almost impossible to securely offset one’s own emissions through offset projects. Because each country has now made an individual commitment to reduce emissions, there is always a risk that the host countries of climate projects will reduce their own CO₂ reduction efforts as a result of the commitment of climate activists. This means that the savings achieved there can …

How CO2 emissions trading can really protect the climate

Interview with private banking, published on 21.11.2021 Experts agree that carbon dioxide must be removed from the atmosphere if the Paris climate targets are to be met. One proposal to do so comes from a team led by physicist Johannes Bednar of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. In the scientific journal Nature, it proposes a special emissions trading system (ETS).   private banking magazin: Mr. Allinger, you have studied Johannes Bednar’s model in detail. Can you briefly explain it to us?  Hanjo Allinger: Materially, the authors call for the implementation of an annual threshold for …

The government should buy up and decommission emission rights

The right to emit CO2 can be traded. This is not a scandal; in fact, emissions trading is a powerful tool for combating climate change without doing so at the expense of society. The real scandal is that the majority of politicians seem not to have understood emissions trading. First, European emissions trading ensures that emissions are only ever released into the air to the extent of the rights issued. Second, as prices rise, the savings are always made by the companies that can do it most cheaply: Anyone who can avoid a ton of CO2 or equivalent emissions for …

Climate risks in the portfolio – how do you deal with them?

Climate change has been a dominant topic not only since the German elections. However, while many other relevant topics lose importance over time, climate change is likely to remain permanently on the agenda in the coming decades. It is therefore not surprising that, from a portfolio management perspective, climate-relevant issues are also increasingly taking center stage and becoming a central issue in portfolio construction. Ultimately, the entire discussion revolves around the question of to what extent and in what way asset managers have the opportunity to respond to climate change. This is because climate change has various effects on portfolios. …

Cap instead of compensate

Jörg Birkelbach conducted an interview with me for impact-tv.de und investmentcannel.eu.   CAP2 entwickelt ein Konzept zur Reduktion von C02: Kappen statt Kompensieren