Carbon Pulse

The purpose of the Principal Consultant is to lead the development of corporate sustainability proposals and the implementation of highly complex mandates. The Principal Consultant focuses on the timely delivery of high quality consultancy advice on sustainability topics for US-based and international clients.

In this role within the Portfolio Management unit, you will be responsible for South Pole's procurement strategy and for closing carbon credit sourcing transactions. You will develop business with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and wholesale companies active in carbon markets.

Implementing a carbon price in line with the global temperature limits of the Paris Agreement could expose nearly a third of mines worldwide to higher costs, with gold mining operations in South Africa seen bearing some of the greatest impacts, analysis released Thursday showed.

A European scientist association has called on the EU to factor in the full lifecycle of emissions from wood pellets under the ETS, a move that could drastically increase costs for biomass-burning utilities such as RWE, Uniper, and Vattenfall.

Poland could achieve climate neutrality by 2056, only six years after the EU as a whole plans to reach net zero emissions, a Polish economic think-tank report has found.

EUAs dropped below €26 Thursday on a bearish auction result and wider macroeconomic worries, extending the previous day's decline as officials said the ongoing ETS registry outage would be short-lived.

The EU ETS registry system is expected to be repaired and back online on Friday, the European Commission said in a note Thursday in response to an outage that has prevented trade in carbon units.

The Western Australian government has launched an initiative to attract investment in projects that can cut emissions and earn carbon credits in the state’s national parks and reserves as part of its COVID-19 recovery plan.

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California Carbon Offset (CCO) values are holding significantly below historic trends as low allowance prices and reduced emissions due to the COVID-19 pandemic cut into compliance demand, market participants said.

Finnish utility Fortum’s climate plans are coming under scrutiny as its Uniper acquisition puts it among the EU’s biggest emitters, while its Russian assets represent an ever-greater share of its carbon footprint.

Drawdown research fellows analyze solutions, drawing upon years of advanced study, experience, and a wide range of backgrounds. For each technology or practice, we review extensive literature and data describing its potential scale, impact, and cost. We then build analytical models to estimate how many gigatons of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases) a given solution could avoid and/or remove over time, as well as the cost of implementing and operating it.

For this position, we are seeking a candidate to support our ongoing facilitation of the political dialogue and implementation of activities supporting the energy transition (from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems) in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines).

For this position, we are seeking a candidate to support the research in our project “Deep Decarbonisation in Latin America”, with a focus on creating the enabling conditions to align finance flows with low-carbon development pathways in selected Latin American countries.

The California Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (IEMAC) will publish its annual report this fall that is likely to provide state regulator ARB with additional suggestions on how to grapple with the allowance glut in its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme.

EUAs rose towards €27 early on Wednesday on strong demand at the bumper UK auction, but failed to hold on to the gains amid news of a bloc-wide emissions registry outage.

The UK has financed 39 climate projects in developing countries that resulted in 31 Mt of CO2e reduced or avoided over 2011-2020, the government said in a report on Wednesday, a rate of abatement eclipsed by emissions growth that campaigners say is a result of its fossil fuel funding.

US biofuel credits (RINs) briefly rallied on Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump said he will speak to EPA officials regarding refiners’ applications for retroactive “gap filling” compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

The EU’s carbon market has been hit by technical issues this week, including a server outage on Wednesday that was preventing participants from accessing their registry accounts or processing allowance transactions.

The project promotes linking of carbon market activities with national climate change policies and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). GIZ is recruiting advisor on Global Carbon Markets Project to support in the implementation of its programmes.