(CHICAGO – September 16, 2009)  Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX®) Chairman and founder Richard L. Sandor, as well as other members of the CCX senior management team, will speak about carbon markets and the benefits of using market innovations to achieve economic and environmental goals at several events this week and in the coming weeks.

WHO Michael J. Walsh, CCX Executive Vice President
WHAT Renewable Energy Market Conference 2009 - Atlanta
WHEN Tuesday, September 15, 10:15 a.m. (ET)
WHERE Omni North Tower, 100 CNN Center, Atlanta, GA
MORE INFO www.renewableenergymarkets.com/

WHO Richard L. Sandor, CCX Chairman and Founder
WHAT McCormick Energy Solutions Conference - Keynote Speaker
WHEN Monday, September 21, 12-2 p.m. (ET)
WHERE Faculty Club at The Ohio State University, 181 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH
MORE INFO http://mccormickenergyconference.ning.com/ or on Twitter @KipWorkshop

WHO Richard L. Sandor, CCX Chairman and Founder
WHAT Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes: 10 year Anniversary Celebration
WHEN Tuesday, September 22, 5:30-8:30 p.m. (ET)
WHERE American Museum of Natural History - 79 Street & Central Park West (Weston Pavilion Entrance), New York, NY
MORE INFO http://www.climateweeknyc.org/events/2009-09-22#122

WHO Michael J. Walsh, CCX Executive Vice President
WHAT Financial Times US Energy Business Conference: Exploring Carbon Risk Management
WHEN Thursday, September 24, 1:30 p.m. (ET)
WHERE Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
MORE INFO http://www.ftconferences.com/energyny/Agenda/

WHO Richard L. Sandor, CCX Chairman and Founder
WHAT The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
WHEN Tuesday, September 29, 6 p.m. (CT)
WHERE The Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren, Chicago, IL
MORE INFO www.thechicagocouncil.org/chicago_council_event_corporate_detail.php?eventid=2114

Sandor also serves as Executive Chairman of Climate Exchange plc. Climate Exchange plc owns CCX, including the CCX-subsidiary Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE®), as well as the European Climate Exchange (ECX). Climate Exchange plc is a publicly traded company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange (CLE.L). 

Walsh is Executive Vice President of CCX.

About Chicago Climate Exchange and Chicago Climate Futures Exchange

CCX is an Exchange whose objectives are to apply financial innovation and incentives to advance social, environmental and economic goals. CCX, which began trading in 2003, is the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding, rules-based greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system, as well as the world’s only global system for emissions trading based on all six greenhouse gases. CCX members are leaders in greenhouse gas management and mitigation, including offset providers and offset aggregators, and located throughout the United States. CCX members derive from all sectors of the global economy, including the public sector, and emissions reductions being achieved through CCX by major utilities, corporations, cities, states and counties, are the only reductions in North America being achieved through a legally binding compliance regime, subject to independent third party verification provided by FINRA and price transparency. The founder, Chairman and CEO of CCX is economist and financial innovator Dr. Richard L. Sandor, who was named a Hero of the Planet by Time magazine in 2002 for his founding of CCX, and in 2007 as the “father of carbon trading.”

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago Climate Exchange, is a CFTC designated contract market which offers standardized and cleared futures and options contracts on emission allowances and other environmental products. Clearing services are provided by The Clearing Corporation, the only active independent futures clearinghouse in the world. Market surveillance services are provided by the National Futures Association, the industry wide, self-regulatory organization for the U.S. futures industry.

CCX, a U.S. corporation, launched its trading platform in 2003. In 2005, CCX launched the European Climate Exchange (ECX), now the leading exchange operating in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Since 2006, both CCX and ECX have been owned by Climate Exchange plc, a publicly traded company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange (CLE.L).