Carbon Pulse

The senior environmental management specialist for climate change provides analysis and support for the Port of Seattle’s (POS) projects and programs focused on carbon reduction and air quality improvements as directed by the Port’s Century Agenda and associated sustainability strategies.

The Oregon Transportation Policy Manager will further Climate Solutions’ mission through concrete program and policy work, including legislative and administrative advocacy at the local, state, and national levels, with a principal focus on a range of policy goals including equitable strategies for transportation electrification, clean fuels, clean mobility, and reducing the need to drive.

The objective is to work on a methodology to assess whether “negative emissions” are really negative emissions in the global sense (physical negative net emissions). 

California’s transportation and electricity sectors will have to cut emissions faster in the post-2020 period to ensure the state reaches its 2030 goal, potentially putting bullish pressure on California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices, according to analysis from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML).

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits continued to set record highs through Friday as short covering drove values towards the pending price cap.

European carbon prices fell by almost a euro early on Monday, giving back some of last Friday's 5% gains as weekend Brexit talks failed to yield a major breakthrough.

Guangdong province has begun consultation on its planned futures exchange, which will focus on CO2 permits initially, and expects to get central government approval before the end of the year, a senior provincial official said, according to local media.

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The UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) passed two noteworthy milestones this month, as countries prepare to determine whether to wind up the project-based carbon finance programme.

California regulator ARB may not begin the process of updating its WCI forestry protocol until next year as it completes work on various regulatory priorities in the final quarter of 2019, several sources told Carbon Pulse.

The EU is battling to curb surging illegal imports in potent Chinese-made F-gases, with smugglers set to bring in products this year with more global warming impact than the greenhouse gas emissions of a mid-sized European country.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford violated environmental law when he abruptly cancelled the Canadian jurisdiction’s WCI-linked ETS last summer, a provincial court said in a split ruling on Friday that will not have a material impact on the province’s current climate policy.

European carbon prices gapped higher on Friday, hitting a six-day high near €24 as oil jumped on news of an Iranian tanker being struck by missiles near Saudi Arabia and as optimism grew over a potential Brexit deal.

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

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A global temperature rise of 2 degrees C could be avoided if large emitting countries collectively adopt a carbon tax of $75/tonne by 2030, as well as other ambitious actions, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund.

RGGI allowance (RGA) prices rose by double digits this week after Pennsylvania announced plans to design an ETS compatible with the Northeast US carbon market, while California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) continued to decline on the secondary market.

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has dithered on rolling out its climate plan unveiled nearly a year ago, with weaker industry carbon pricing standards and no progress on an emission reduction fund underscoring those delayed efforts, according to a report published Thursday.

The EU Parliament on Thursday confirmed its position on the 2021-2027 centralised EU budget, seeking a higher amount of climate-related spending to reflect the bloc’s net zero emissions ambitions.

Washington state’s Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) published a draft low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) regulation on Wednesday, with the four-county region proposing the most ambitious carbon intensity (CI) reductions of any North American clean fuels programme.