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Quebec intends to finalise its forestry offset protocol and post-2023 allowance allocation levels for its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme next year after completing consultations on both topics, the Canadian province's environmental minister said at a UN climate conference side event on Monday.

UN climate negotiations in Madrid shift into high gear this week with the arrival of ministers from most of the nearly 200 countries attending the COP25 talks tasked with finalising work on emissions trading rules under the Paris Agreement's Article 6. Below is a running summary of those efforts, as well as other happenings at the summit.

Germany will cancel a yet-to-be-determined number of EU carbon allowances to offset the impact of its coal phaseout, the government confirmed on Monday, allaying concerns that Europe’s top emitter could flood the market with unused permits.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) collaboration is expected to release its draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the proposed fuel sector ETS in the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions this week, two regulatory sources said.

China’s national emissions trading scheme is likely to start off with low prices next year and only play a moderate role in the nation’s overall policy mix to control greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, according to a survey released Monday.

Plans for a Chilean cap-and-trade programme and the passage of carbon tax reforms may stall as the country's beleaguered government rolls out a sweeping economic recovery plan and backtracks on other its other climate action efforts in response to mass protests over living costs.

Luxembourg will introduce a domestic tax on fossil fuels to help meet its climate targets, the government announced Friday, making the landlocked microstate the latest European nation to implement carbon pricing beyond the reach of the EU ETS.

Australia has released new emission projections with revised historical GHG data, increasing the amount of AAU carryovers it might use for its Paris Agreement target and putting it on track to exceed its international commitments.

A recent study challenging the carbon credit standards that have applied for the global CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme made questionable interpretations of the programme’s environmental criteria, and also ran counter to UN body ICAO’s own guidance in the process, developers and brokers said Friday.

The British Embassy in Vienna is part of the United Kingdom’s world-wide diplomatic network, and represents British political, economic and consular interests in Vienna and is now looking to recruit a Climate Change Policy Adviser.

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

Industrial allowance allocation for California facilities regulated under state’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme rose by roughly 15 million in 2020, as the number of those permits eligible for past compliance obligations more than doubled, according to data published Friday.

Major powers were showing signs of compromise on negotiating the international emissions trade rulebook under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 on Friday, boosting prospects that a deal can be reached by the end of next week as UN talks near their halfway point.

European carbon prices edged up on Friday to stick near €25, with technical buying offsetting weaker fundamentals to notch a 1.1% weekly loss.

Indonesia plans to launch a pilot emissions trading scheme for its power and industry sectors next year aiming to transition to full market no later than 2024, a government official said at the sidelines of UN climate talks in Madrid.

RGGI’s final auction of 2019 settled at its largest discount to the secondary market in more than two years, as compliance entities purchased their biggest share of allowances in since 2016, according to results published Friday.

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

Two of Europe’s biggest low-cost airlines posted a third straight month-on-month decline in their carbon emissions in November as flight travel in Europe decreased with the arrival of colder weather.

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