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Setting Up the Ecoasset Portfolio: Ounces of Prevention Can Save ‘Tons’ of Cure

Addressing a few key implementation issues prior to applying risk management to environmental compliance is critical for program success. Often these issues are as simple as making minor adjustment to computational models and portfolio structures to ensure an accurate overlay on existing risk management programs. The challenge is to address these issues not only for today’s compliance programs but for future ones as well.

Without proper planning and implementation, risk management yields garbage-in and garbage-out (GIGO) results that can become the nightmare of the portfolio manager. Controlling the GIGO factor means applying the right models to analyze each situation and to structure the portfolio data to best serve the ecoAsset (allowances, credits, certificates, etc) risk program.

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• EMA 5th Annual Fall Meeting & International Conference Highlights
• EMA Calendar of Events
• Multi-Pollutant Approaches Offer Needed Certainty and Opportunity to Shape Emerging Emissions Trading Designs
• EMA Contracts Committee