Carbon Pulse

Brussels' incoming climate boss said he would be “extremely surprised” if the EU doesn’t move towards raising its 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55% below 1990 levels, though such a proposal will not come within the new Commission's first 100 days in office.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits have remained near historic highs above $200 over the past month despite state regulator ARB announcing it would seek to finalise a “firm maximum” price in the programme.

Members of California’s Compliance Offset Protocol Task Force (OPTF) will be announced later this month ahead of the committee’s first meeting in November, regulatory sources told Carbon Pulse.

The Northeast US RGGI carbon market will offer over 13.1 million allowances at its final quarterly sale on Dec. 4, the programme announced Tuesday.

A London-based investment management firm has appointed a cast of carbon trading industry veterans as staff and advisors as it prepares to launch a global environmental markets fund.

EUAs sank back to €23 early on Tuesday, heading back towards the previous session’s six-month low amid pessimism over Brexit and US-China trade talks.

South Korea sold all 550,000 KAU19s on offer at Tuesday’s monthly auction, which settled a touch below the secondary market but at the highest level yet since the government sales began in January.

New Zealand climate change minister James Shaw announced the chairperson of the country’s future independent Climate Change Commission on Tuesday.

New Zealand’s opposition National party is threatening to not support the coalition government’s Zero Carbon Act, as disagreement over how to handle the country’s agriculture emissions heats up.

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Quebec's regulated entities largely channelled their final 2018 allocations for WCI cap-and-trade obligations into compliance accounts during the third quarter, as more than 4 million V18 allowances left jurisdictional accounts, data shows.

California fuel consumption edged lower for the fifth consecutive month in June, but state data revealed the trend is easing as lower retail gasoline and diesel prices may be incentivising additional consumer demand.

Two of Europe’s biggest low-cost airlines posted a month-on-month decline in their carbon emissions in September.

EUAs fell to a fresh six-month low early on Monday, breaking another technical support level and continuing their recent rout as bearish economic data weighed.

South Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.4% in 2017, the government announced Monday, with the increase largely driven by higher coal use for electricity generation and steel production.

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