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Although carbon rights trading increased globally by 62% last year, the market value only rose by 3.2% due to the drop in transaction prices. The failure of the Copenhagen summit sparked a new crisis in the carbon market. We will have to wait for future summits to see whether and how the doubts raised have been answered.
In the first quarter of 2010, the Basque consumer confidence index stood at 81 points - 12 points down on the the previous quarter. Despite this fall, Basque consumer confidence continued its path of slow recovery following the minimum value reached in the second quarter of 2008.