CARBON EXPO 2005: The world’s only trade fair and conference for emissions trading and the carbon market closed this Friday on what has been defined by participants as an extremely successful event
Industry showed great interest in the emissions trading market
Outstanding participation: More than 1500 trade fair and conference visitors (2004: 700) and 134 exhibiting companies (2004: 50) from 87 countries (2004: 58) were in Cologne.

At least 100 deals for the purchase of carbon emissions reductions from poor and middle income countries from the developing world and countries in transition were reached and/or advanced
Record participation of developing countries: 29 high level representatives
The next CARBON EXPO will be held from May 10th to 12th, 2006
At least 100 deals for the purchase of carbon emissions reductions from poor and middle income countries from the developing world and countries in transition were reached and/or advanced during CARBON EXPO 2005 - a unique business platform for the emerging carbon market, which attracted 134 exhibiting companies and more than 1500 participants from 87 countries, including more than 150 journalists.
CARBON EXPO 2005, the world’s only trade fair and conference for emissions trading and the carbon market, was officially closed this Friday. According to the organizers — the World Bank, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and Koelnmesse — "We have succeeded in bringing together the world’s market players to Cologne. After its premiere in 2004, CARBON EXPO 2005 has once again underlined that in CARBON EXPO, business gets done. This international information and business platform is an open door to emissions trading and the carbon market," explained Ken Newcombe (Senior Manager for Sustainable Development at the World Bank), Andrei Marcu (President of the IETA) and Wolfgang Kranz (Executive Vice President of Koelnmesse) in a joint statement. And they added: "It is already clear that CARBON EXPO 2005 will help to significantly boost growth in emissions rights trading and promote the transfer of technology to developing countries and economies in transition".
CARBON EXPO 2005 was officially opened last Wednesday by Bärbel Höhn, the Minister of the Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia; Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the Climate Secretariat of the United Nations; Margaret Beckett, the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, Spanish Secretary of State for Contamination and Climate Change Prevention.