Essent Trading is pleased to announce that it will offset the CO2 emissions of all business flights taken by its employees.

Essent Trading purchased Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) from renewable energy projects in Latin America on 12 June 2009. These projects were allocated by the Adaptation Fund. The proceeds from this sale will finance programmes in developing countries aimed at fighting the adverse impact of climate change, including drought, floods and agricultural yield loss.

The volume and value of the world's voluntary carbon markets nearly doubled in 2008, according to the latest edition of the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, which was sponsored by Essent Trading and was released on Wednesday 20 May 2009.

Mahmoud Hamada, Vice President of Quantitative Analysis, has published a book based on his PhD thesis entitled: Dynamic Portfolio Optimization and Asset Pricing: Martingale Methods and Probability Distortion Functions.

Maria van der Hoeven, Economics Affair Minister of the Netherlands gave the official go-ahead to build the first Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in June 2008.

Essent and Solidaridad received an award for the most innovative project related to sustainability in the coffee sector from the Speciality Coffee Association of America (SCAA) in the American city of Minneapolis.

Essent Trading emerged as the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) regional winner in the recently announced ACL Impact awards.

European Climate Exchange (ECX) and ICE Futures Europe opened the gates for trading in Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) units on March 14th.