Commencing with Prototype Carbon Fund by World Bank, there have been launched or is to be launched several kinds of carbon funds until today.
Among those, GG-CAP (Greenhouse Gas-Credit Aggregation Pool) is initiated by Natsource Group and is a carbon pool which uniquely installed commercial style risk management system.
Natsource Japan solicits Japanese entities for this GG-CAP which is run by its affiliate company Natsource Asset Management Corp. GG-CAP enables its participants to comply with domestic, international and voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements by purchasing low-cost compliance instruments from a diverse portfolio of project-based emissions reductions.
GG-CAP will initially procure 15 to 30 contracts totaling 30 to 50 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions reductions for delivery in the 2004-2012 period.