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New Zealanders go to the polls this Saturday, and while it looks like Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will win re-election by a landslide the specifics of the results may still have important impacts on how the government handles the emissions trading scheme over the next three years.

WRI is seeking a Research Analyst I to work on China’s climate planning towards 2050 and economic transition, at both national and subnational levels.

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

EU carbon prices will more than triple to near €90 by 2030 as industrials are forced to start cutting emissions, a team of analysts has predicted, in the latest in a wave of updated forecasts to reflect higher climate ambition by the bloc.

Analysts expect EU carbon prices to exceed €50 by the end of the decade as cheaper abatement is exhausted, the Carbon Forward 2020 conference heard on Wednesday, with higher levels partly determined by how quickly lawmakers implement reforms.

US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s plan to eliminate the carbon footprint of the nation’s power sector by 2035 would slash emissions in the RGGI and California cap-and-trade programmes compared to a business-as-usual scenario, analysts said Wednesday.

California will finalise post-2030 carbon reduction targets for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) by the middle of this decade following the completion of the state’s next Scoping Plan update, an official from regulator ARB said Wednesday.

California divvied out more than 1 million carbon offsets across 13 new and existing projects over the past two weeks, with nearly half of the credits featuring direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), according to data from state regulator ARB published Wednesday,

The European Commission appears to have ruled out introducing a price floor in the EU carbon market, according to a senior official, reversing a previous indication that the bloc’s executive body would reconsider a policy that it has historically opposed.

European carbon prices rebounded after hitting a fresh two-month low on Wednesday, with dip-buying, short-covering, and optimism surrounding Brexit trade talks said to trigger the rise.

The European Commission will next year propose a system to monitor, verify, and report (MRV) methane emissions, a move that could pave the way for the inclusion of the potent greenhouse gas in the bloc’s carbon market.

Extending the EU ETS to buildings presents a "frightening" risk of harming the poor, a senior Polish official said on Wednesday as Brussels unveiled bloc-wide renovation plans.

Utility EDF on Wednesday upped its French nuclear generation target for 2020 by up to 6%, projecting shorter planned outages at its fleet of 58 plants in the country through the rest of this year.

Switzerland has clinched a bilateral agreement with Peru to purchase carbon offsets under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6, the parties announced on Wednesday.

The Shanghai government will auction an additional 2 million carbon allowances to participants in its emissions trading scheme on Oct. 30, the deadline day for participants to surrender permits to cover for their 2019 emissions.

South Korea sold all 616,100 allowances on offer in Wednesday’s monthly carbon auction, the first time a sale goes oversubscribed in half a year as KAU prices are slowly recovering after being slashed in half over the summer months.

A group of 16 Australian institutional investors have banded together to help drive a 45% drop in national greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a move that would set the country on a path to reaching net zero by mid-century and cut carbon by 230 million tonnes of CO2e per year beyond the government’s target at the end of this decade.

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

Canadian carbon credit demand could skew lower following Ottawa’s approval of the Ontario Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) to replace the federal ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS), while the decision may also erode support for the national offset programme under development, market stakeholders told Carbon Pulse.