Carbon Pulse

Oregon regulators should consider ending complementary GHG reduction policies if the state wants to promote a cost-effective and environmentally-sound cap-and-trade programme in the future, according to a new study from a Harvard professor and an economic consultant.

EU carbon continued to recover from late October’s collapse on Tuesday, with a strong auction result helping prices bust through several more technical levels to reach a six-day high near €18.

Three Mongolian carbon offset projects have been issued credits under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), nearly doubling the amount of credits generated so far, although the Japanese government retained the majority of the offsets.

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Current EU carbon prices around €16-17 per tonne are "acceptable" to Poland, the country’s energy minister said this weekend after urging for the European Commission over the past two months to intervene and cool the market.

Quebec saw higher fuel emissions in the final two years of its cap-and-trade programme's second compliance period to cause a shortage of available allowance supply, making it a net buyer in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), data shows.

The European Commission is urging EU states to file a difference to the rulebook on the UN’s CORSIA, a Commission official said Monday, a move that casts further doubt on the future of the aviation offsetting scheme.

European carbon prices held above €17 on Monday, recovering from an earlier drop spurred by a weak and somewhat peculiar auction result.

Governments should wait two or three years before setting a global aviation emission goal in case they "lose focus" on implementing the CORSIA offsetting mechanism, which is designed to limit emissions at 2020 levels, senior aviation representatives told a conference Monday.

ICIS has added to its growing roster of analysts by hiring a veteran EU ETS expert.

Indonesia, one of the world’s biggest GHG emitters, could have an emissions trading system or similar market mechanism ready for launch as early as 2021, a government official said.

Tuesday's US midterm elections are unlikely to have a significant near-term impact on the RGGI carbon market or California’s suite of climate initiatives, but the winners could play a key role in developing those and other programmes further down the line, legislative experts said.

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The Dec-18 EUA contract on ICE shot up by nearly €2 on Friday to climb back above €17, leaving behind the previous day's four-month low to finish the week down 6.6%.

Following numerous unsuccessful attempts to put a price on Washington state's GHG emissions, a broad coalition of stakeholders is again rallying voters to overcome industry lobbying and make the state the first in the US to introduce a carbon tax.

The 3.1 million EU Allowances being auctioned by Latvia on Nov. 16 originate from its 2011 legal victory against the European Commission over its Phase 2 allocation, Carbon Pulse has learned.

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

Operator demand for EU Allowances auctioned by Germany, as well as wider trading volumes, surged in September amid soaring prices, according to a new report.

China Southern Power Grid Co. will auction off a batch of carbon credits issued by the Guangdong provincial government, setting a floor price of 20 yuan ($2.90).

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has terminated contracts with six projects meant to deliver a total 2 million offsets to the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund.