Carbon Pulse

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices surged over the past two days as media outlets reported that President Trump was once again close to agreeing a plan that will boost next year’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) quotas.

EUAs again dropped below €25 on Wednesday to approach yesterday's four-month low, as analysts continued to flag bearish technical signals.

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week issued slightly more than 100,000 carbon credits, with all the units awarded to vegetation-based projects.

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California regulator ARB will hold a meeting on Nov. 21 to consider amendments to install a price cap and a borrowed credits mechanism in the state’s low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) in response to concerns about cost containment.

Carbon prices should start high and decline over time to combat the environmental and economic cost of long-term inaction, a change in approach from conventional approaches, according to research published Tuesday.

EU lawmakers are prepared to examine with fresh eyes whether to deploy the carbon border measures they once rejected, as the bloc’s higher carbon prices and the ongoing global trade conflict raise the stakes.

The Mexican environment ministry (SEMARNAT) published a largely unchanged final regulation for its pilot cap-and-trade programme on Tuesday, with the agency yet to determine the market’s annual CO2 caps and free allowance totals for the Jan. 2020 start date.

German emitters maintained solid interest in the country's EUA auctions in August, buying up three quarters of the supply on offer, a government report shows.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is aiming for member jurisdictions to commit by spring 2020 to develop a regional cap-and-invest programme for the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, while planning to auction off nearly all carbon allowances in the future ETS.

Air France will from next year offset the emissions from all of its nearly 500 daily domestic flights, the airline’s CEO announced late Monday.

California Carbon Offset (CCO) demand has retraced on the secondary market following the slide in WCI allowance prices after the May auction, removing some incentives for compliance entities to procure credits early.

European carbon prices dropped to a new four-month low early on Tuesday on carry-through selling, though buyers helped prevent further losses by pushing EUAs back up to the technical levels breached yesterday.

China has released a draft allocation plan for its power sector emissions trading scheme trial run, proposing strict efficiency levels for coal-fired power plants that analysts say would force changes at old, inefficient plants despite the lack of an overall CO2 cap for the market.

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Seventeen entities opened Compliance Instrument Tracking System Service (CITSS) accounts in the California cap-and-trade programme during the third quarter, according to data released by state regulator ARB on Monday.

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices have retreated in recent days amid reports that a major Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) deal is on hold while President Donald Trump attempts to ward off an impeachment inquiry by Congressional Democrats.