Newport Capital Ventures Group

I met Zhena Muzyka at eWomenNetwork. She is CEO of Zhena's Gypsytea company, who knows how to make drivers of competitive advantage using effective social responsibility objectives, focused on the direct trade mechanism. Well done, Zhena! I admire what you are doing in Sri Lanka. http://www.gypsytea.com

I know Dennis has a valid point in this article. Australia, in my opinion, made a bit of a hash in exercising complex regulations in what is fast becoming a less complex and robust voluntary market. I'm an advocate of the voluntary market and can see little reason for the complex tax impositions and cap and trade thinking. Let us know what you think. Yours, Ian Adlington http://www.scmp.com//incentives-may-work-where-carbon-tax-

In the lead up to COP18 in Doha, this is a must read blog post by Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO of Conservation International - a partner of QFI. http://blog.conservation.org//in-arabian-gulf-environment/

The Finance Industry is changing... and of all people, I know this. This article from the FT epitomises what I am seeing on a daily basis. Let me know your thoughts! http://www.ft.com//66608056-f287-11e1-86e0-00144feabdc0.ht

This morning Ian Adlington, CEO of newport Capital Ventures, had the opportunity to discuss an aspect of carbon economics on Karen Rands' weekly radio show. There is an increasing buzz in the entreprenuers circles about carbon credits in general. Ian's interview exposes the reality of the"Triple Bottom Line" effect that entreprenuers will need to understand if they are to use carbon economics as a financing tool. Listen in to learn more. In a few weeks time, Ian will focus in more closely as to how entreprenuers can integrate in this new economics model.

It's with great thanks to Karen Rands that I have an opportunity to tell the world that monetizing black carbon allows countries to enable emissions reductions programs to benefit themselves, their countries health, impact the world's climate and live in a clean and happy world.

Mohammed Ismael, who is the representative of Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani, and the Rotec team (Rob Rutherford, Rob Borbidge AO, Craig Doyle and Ian Adlington, Newport Capital) enjoying dinner in Doha. We had a number of successful meetings regarding the collaboration between Qatar and the Carbon Fund and its initiatives. Rotec also had productive discussions about establishing component manufacturing operations in Qatar. This is the point at which we realized that there would be a significant interest in building a new carbon economics framework to monetize black carbon emissions reductions projects.

Ian Adlington, Newport Capital, is with the Board of Directors of Rotec Australia (Rob Borbidge AO, Chairman of Rotec, Ex-Premier of Queensland, Rob Rutherford, CEO, Craig Doyle, Director). This photo at the White House follows the meeting with the President of the Philippines who endorsed the Rotec Emissions Reduction Project. This was the beginning of the journey to monetize black carbon.

This was the landmark meeting earlier in 2012 that signified a major milestone in how we are moving forward black carbon economics. Senator Alvarez is an international climate change advocate and is connected to the Climate Institute. Rob Rutherford of Rotec Australia, Ian Adlington of Newport Capital, Dennis Posadas of the Climate Institute met to agree on the next steps to monetize black carbon from the Jeepney Project, which is the world's first such project.