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The New Zealand Exchange says it has received a positive response from companies interested in a regional market for trading carbon credits.
The NZX and a dozen other companies are staking out their claim to ownership of the rights to run a carbon market in the first time zone in which financial markets operate each day.
They plan to call the market TZ1. Since presenting the final report to Government and launching the name on May 1, the working group has received expressions of interest from Australia, the United States, Britain and elsewhere in Europe in trading carbon credits through TZ1, and investing in the venture.
