Carbon Pulse

California regulator ARB has not made adequate arguments in defending the state's compliance grade forestry offset protocol, and changes should made to address the methodology's lenient leakage guidelines, a new policy brief said.

Unspecified and renewable generation made up a larger share of California’s imported power in 2018, as those sources replaced lost hydroelectric power from in-state and out-of-state sources, according to California Energy Commission (CEC) data.

Poland’s EUA auction volumes for 2020, which were announced late Thursday, are around 20% higher than expected, leading analysts to question where the additional supply is coming from.

EUAs were holding above €28 early on Friday, though they failed to mount a challenge to yesterday’s 11-year high of €28.72, with some traders wary of a rapid drop due to profit-taking.

Germany’s transport and building sectors should be assigned carbon prices either through a market or a tax before transitioning them into the EU ETS, government-appointed economic experts have recommended.

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

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Issuance of Australian carbon credits dropped further this week as most project owners had secured offsets before the end of the 2018-19 financial year last month.

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The Canadian federal government has solicited a report to determine the potential for different offset protocols to supply credits to the country’s ‘backstop’ large emitter trading programme.

UK emitters will be subject to a £16/tonne carbon tax from Nov. 4 if Britain leaves the EU without a deal at the end of October, the government said on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices declined by double-digits amid thin volume on the secondary market, as RGGI allowance (RGA) prices rose slightly during the holiday-shortened week.

The EU won’t showcase a deeper collective emission cut goal at September’s UN Secretary General climate summit, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes that the bloc’s leaders could return to the table this summer to agree a net zero 2050 goal.

EU carbon allowance auction volumes will be cut by around 37% in the final four months of 2019, sale hosts EEX announced late Thursday, as the MSR removes a further 117.6 million EUAs from the market this year.

The California Senate has passed legislation that directs a new task force to consider developing compliance offset protocols focused on natural and working lands (NWL) and potentially could enable multiple landowners to jointly developed projects.

New Zealand carbon allowances are holding around the NZ$23 ($15.36) level despite rapidly fading timber export prices that has brought speculation on whether forest owners would sell off more NZUs to compensate for falling income levels.

European carbon prices hit a fresh 11-year early on Thursday before consolidating above €28, as participants mulled whether EUAs as their next move would scale higher ground to test all-time highs or recede on profit-taking.

The Canadian federal Conservatives' plan to eliminate or overhaul parts of the ruling Liberals’ climate and CO2 pricing strategy would prove costly and take the country further away from its Paris Agreement target, according to a report released Thursday.