Carbon Pulse

New Zealand carbon allowances set yet another record high on Tuesday as policy fundamentals continue to suggest prices will go higher in the future.

Australia’s new prime minister will defy calls from his party’s right-wing faction to leave the Paris Agreement, partly over concerns that leaving would jeopardise ongoing talks with the EU over a free trade agreement, local media reported Tuesday.

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The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) should alter its planned treatment of external transactions under the entity’s proposed CO2 price to avoid higher emitting resources coming into the state’s grid as well as possible legal issues, stakeholders said during a workshop on Monday.

European carbon prices stormed to a new 10-year high near €22 on Monday, rising more than €1 or over 5% at one point as the lack of an auction and a UK holiday squeezed supply.

Australia has launched a review into its project methodology for allowing airliners to earn carbon credits, after seeing more than three years go by without issuing a single offset to the aviation industry.

Australia appears set to extend its policy inertia on climate change issues after new prime minister Scott Morrison over the weekend emphasised his focus would be on bringing down electricity prices, while appointing a renewable energy opponent as his new energy minister.

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Compliance in the final round of Mexico's cap-and-trade simulation dropped as unexpected "shocks" were introduced into the market, according to the final results published this week from the months-long exercise to prepare emitters for the country's real carbon market.

EUAs recovered from a brief dip below €20 on Friday to extend the previous session’s 10-year high, with another week of curtailed auctions looming and correction risks mounting.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has issued over 825,000 carbon credits over the past two weeks, with energy firm EDL LFG earning over four-fifths of them from landfills and coal mine gas projects across the country.

New onshore wind and solar power generators can for the first time compete with existing thermal plants due to EUA prices climbing above €20 and higher fossil fuel prices, environmental campaigners said Friday.

Treasurer Scott Morrison on Friday ousted Malcolm Turnbull to become Australia’s new prime minister, a move likely to push climate change even further down the government’s agenda, but the defeat of right-winger Peter Dutton makes it less probable the nation will seek an exit from the Paris Agreement.

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California carbon prices rose this week following Tuesday’s publication of the linked WCI market’s sold-out quarterly auction result, after some entities had looked to turn a profit immediately after the data was made public.