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South Korea has released the monthly auctioning schedule for its emissions trading scheme next year, with total volume slightly above this year’s levels.

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More clean fuel standard programmes could develop across the United States as states look to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector and incentivise additional supply of less-carbon emitting fuel sources, experts told the OPIS Carbon & LCFS conference.

The Canadian federal government is to announce an agreement with Alberta on the province’s carbon pricing mechanism for stationary installations, national media reported Thursday.

The credit balance under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is likely to tighten early in the next decade, but the accelerated adoption of electric vehicles will likely ensure the programme reaches its 2030 goal, an analyst said Thursday.

EUAs recovered from a midday dive towards €24 on Thursday, with buyers stepping in at levels that have consistently found support over the past two weeks.

Businesses and governments on the sidelines of the Madrid climate talks are busy building the foundations for a Paris era international carbon market and carving out a role for themselves, even as delegates remain gridlocked in negotiations over the rules.

California Carbon Allowance (CCAs) prices fell this week to counter an initially bullish reaction to last week’s Q4 WCI auction, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) slid heading into the Northeast US carbon market’s final sale of 2019.

The South African government has formalised regulations for the use of offsets under its national carbon tax regime, after making a few last-minute changes based on stakeholder feedback.

Voluntary carbon trade worldwide doubled in 2018 to approach record levels at near 100MtCO2e as forest projects took a lead amid heightened demand, though offset prices remained flat, researchers found in a report published on Thursday.

China may issue as many as 4.4 billion CO2 allowances in the first year of its national emissions trading scheme, analysts said Thursday, 30% more than previously thought as the number of participants has swelled.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has now cancelled all seven ERF contracts with developer Our Energy Group, a data update showed Thursday, while new offset issuance this week swelled to three-quarters of a million.

Western Australia has decided to allow offset projects on pastoral lands as long as they don’t interfere with the local mining industry, finally clearing the way for stalled projects that will generate some 5 million credits to the federal government.

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