Jeremy Weinstein is active in areas of corporate finance, renewable resource development, derivatives, greenhouse gas mitigation projects and emissions trading. He was awarded the 2007 Distinguished Service in Environmental Markets Award by the Environmental Markets Association. He is the co-chair of the joint Emissions Markets Association/American Bar Association Committee to draft a standard form of renewable energy certificates (RECs or green tags) trading enabling agreement.
His relevant publications and activities include:
"The New ABA/EMA/ACORE Master Renewable Energy Certificate Trading Agreement," Kramer and Fusaro, Energy and Environmental Trading: US Law and Taxation (2008);
"New Master Renewable Energy Certificate Trading Agreement," American Bar Association Energy Committees Newsletter, May 2007;
"On the Path to Renewable Energy Certificates Derivatives," Futures & Derivatives Law Report, Apr. 2007;
Introduction and Guidance Notes, ABA/EMA/ACORE Master Renewable Energy Certificate Purchase and Sale Agreement, Feb. 2007 (with other credited working group members);
"Contracting for a Unified Renewable Energy Certificates Market," Environmental Finance, Nov. 2006;
"Standardizing Renewable Energy Certificates Contracting," Environmental Finance, May 2005;
"A Western Renewables Marketplace," Environmental Finance, Apr. 2004;
"Examining Enron's SO2 Emission Trades," Environmental Finance, Mar. 2003;
"Using the Emissions Marketing Association Master Agreement," The Emissions Trader, Mar. 2003;
"Carbon-Denominated Weather Swaps," Environmental Finance, Nov. 2001;
"Weather Derivatives for Environmental Risk Management," Energy & Power Risk Management, Sep. 2001; and
"Emissions Trading: The Market as Mystic," Energy & Power Risk Management, Nov. 2000.
media coverage: EMA/ABA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement
media coverage: BBC interview on international climate change policy, from Bolivia (realmedia file)
committee work: Co-chair, EMA/American Bar Association Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement Drafting Committee
committee work: Member, Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System Stakeholder Advisory Committee
committee work: Member, ABA Renewable Energy Bar Section