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          Carbon Expo
        
        
          Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference
        
        
          29-31/May
        
        
          Montjuïc. 3rd event in Barcelona
        
        
          The world’s leading fair on carbon emissions and
        
        
          climate change solutions, held its 3rd event in
        
        
          Barcelona, organised by The World Bank, The
        
        
          International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
        
        
          and Fira de Barcelona.
        
        
          After three days of presentations and debates
        
        
          about the state of the carbon market, currently
        
        
          under complex circumstances, participants
        
        
          showed confidence in the ability to counteract the
        
        
          effects of emissions on the atmosphere.
        
        
          Participants included senior executives of
        
        
          financial and legal corporations, managers
        
        
          of energy and consulting companies, political
        
        
          leaders and government officials, UNFCCC
        
        
          representatives, investment promotion agencies
        
        
          and multilateral development organizations,
        
        
          academic institutions and think-tanks,
        
        
          among others.
        
        
          IETA presented the «GHG Market Sentiment
        
        
          Survey 2013», its report on how the carbon
        
        
          market is perceived, featuring the results of
        
        
          interviews with market agents. 96% of the
        
        
          respondents were found to support ETS structural
        
        
          reforms, and 39% think that a more ambitious
        
        
          emissions target must be set for the EU before
        
        
          2015, in order to meet its purposes in relation
        
        
          to climate change.
        
        
          With more than 2,200 participants from
        
        
          110 countries and 200 speakers, the fair and the
        
        
          congress have established themselves as the best
        
        
          space for debate and gathering of government
        
        
          officers from developed countries and emerging
        
        
          economies, as well as representatives from the
        
        
          private sector, the civil society and the media.
        
        
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          AREA
        
        
          21,000 m
        
        
          2
        
        
          EXHIBITORS
        
        
          150
        
        
          TYPE
        
        
          Professional
        
        
          ACTIVITIES
        
        
          Plenary sessions,
        
        
          conferences, workshops
        
        
          110
        
        
          countries represented