Carbon Pulse

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Plans to bring shipping emissions into the EU ETS must ensure that no free emissions allowances are allocated, two national shipowner associations said in a letter on Monday.

US energy-related CO2 emissions declined by double-digits in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent ‘stay-at-home’ orders reduced overall power consumption and vehicle miles travelled, according to federal data released Monday.

EU carbon prices hit a new record above €44 on Monday, extending last week's top trade amid strong auction demand, a supportive energy complex, and bullish technical signals.

The flourishing global voluntary carbon market is about to achieve another ‘coming of age’ milestone: its own fixed income-style ratings system.

South Korean carbon allowances fell to their lowest levels in more than five years in Monday trade as prospects of having to cancel millions of units due to the oversupply weighed on sentiment.

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A net zero strategy for Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) should allow for some back-up use of natural gas that could be offset through negative emissions methodologies, according to a report released Sunday.

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A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

Speculators increased their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings over the past week, while WCI emitters shed their holdings slightly, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

Increasingly, engineered carbon removal technologies are pitched against nature-based solutions to tackle the climate crisis - particularly in the voluntary carbon markets. Will forests be passed over to benefit from carbon finance - again?

EUA prices eked out a small gain on Friday to limit the pullback from this week's record high above €44, with bullish traders and observers expecting a fresh challenge to that level in the days ahead.

US gasoline and diesel consumption is expected to rise this summer over 2020 levels as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic ease, according to a federal forecast, likely increasing cap-and-trade obligations for US fuel suppliers in the WCI-linked programme.

The size of the Nova Scotia cap-and-trade auction on June 9 will increase over 40% from the most recent sale, according to a notice published by the province’s environment ministry on Friday.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including a national CO2 fee and rebate bill and a Rhode Island net zero emissions act.

The Washington Senate approved a weaker version of a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) bill late Thursday that is tied to the implementation of a large transportation funding package, while the upper chamber also forwarded a WCI-modelled carbon market proposal to the House with a similar binding requirement.