Carbon Pulse

Pachama is looking for a new team member to help lead and coordinate our strategy and full development of our carbon supply to achieve our mission. This role will be responsible for helping to define and then build a quality supply of forest carbon credits on Pachama's platform.

EU carbon prices surged by nearly 7% to a one-month high on Monday, tracking wider financial markets higher on positive news surrounding the race for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Rabobank is looking for a Senior Manager, Climate Risk to join its Enterprise Risk Management Team on a full-time permanent basis and will be responsible for embedding climate change risk within Rabobank Region Australia, New Zealand.

This is a position within a small dedicated team to lead audits and investigations to verify compliance with the ETS requirements.

NZ MPI has two fixed term opportunities for Operations Analysts to join our Climate Change Operations team and support the forestry aspects of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI).

Independent MP Zali Steggall on Monday was set to introduce a bill that would commit Australia to net zero emissions by 2050 just as international focus on the nation’s climate policy is increasing after Joe Biden’s election win.

Three EU member states will generate 90% of the bloc’s total coal power output by the end of the decade, which risks the bloc missing its proposed emissions reduction target of 55% below 1990 levels, a report released Monday found.

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

Both compliance and financial entities added to their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions this week as prices decreased on the secondary market and the state's interim true-up deadline passed, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) on Friday released its RGGI-aligned cap-and-trade regulation for public comment, as Governor Tom Wolf (D) seeks to make the Keystone State the newest member of the Northeast US carbon market in 2022.

EU carbon pulled back on Friday following a big three-day rally, with prices consolidating below €26 on profit-taking and a weak auction result and to notch a 7.2% weekly gain.

OECD nations mobilised in 2018 11% more on climate finance for developing countries, compared with the previous year, although reaching the $100 million objective set by 2020 is still uncertain.

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

Hong Kong-based shipping firm Wah Kwong has agreed to buy an undisclosed amount of carbon credits from the territory’s biggest power company as part of a joint effort to “raise awareness of decarbonisation in the shipping industry”.

Italian utility Enel has reported a 61% year-on-year drop in coal power generation over the first nine months while considerably advancing its hedging position, a double-whammy for EUA demand.

Offset deliveries to Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) has now surpassed 60 million units, according to Clean Energy Regulator data, while the recent high ACCU issuance levels continued this week.

India is considering setting up a domestic GHG emissions trading scheme, a senior government official told industry leaders this week, while providing no further detail on what such a market might look like or when it could start.

President Donald Trump replaced the chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday evening, demoting Neil Chatterjee after he voiced openness for the grid regulator to consider state-led efforts to incorporate carbon pricing into wholesale power markets.

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Emissions regulated under Quebec’s WCI-linked carbon market increased by almost 1% last year, as the CO2 from a newly opened cement plant outweighed lower GHG output elsewhere in the economy.