Carbon Pulse

The Manitoba government announced its 2018-2022 GHG reduction target on Tuesday for its provincially-administered carbon reduction policies, coming as a separate measurement from the projected climate impacts of the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ CO2 pricing plan on the jurisdiction.

The Guangdong department of ecology and environment has published a preliminary list of 90 power companies that qualify to participate in China’s nationwide cap-and-trade programme.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator on Tuesday issued almost 222,000 carbon credits, while two previously registered projects were revoked as they had failed to generate any offsets.

Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved the nation’s long-term climate strategy including a goal to go carbon neutral in the second half of the century, which it will present as it hosts the G20 this weekend.

India has decided to proceed with a voluntary carbon market for its small-scale industrial sector and has outlined options for what the programme might look like, while pausing plans to include the waste sector.

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Carbon offset credits should only play a transitional role in meeting Paris Agreement goals and the use of such credits may be drawing to a close, the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) said Monday.

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The expert panel for UN body ICAO's CORSIA programme is aiming to make recommendations by Feb. 2020 on eligible credit types, coming less than a year before the start of the global aviation offsetting scheme's pilot phase.

EUAs jumped to its highest level since May on Monday, climbing 2.8% as the lack of an auction and a public holiday across much of the continent quelled trade.

The EU should consider introducing measures to reveal the trading positions of participants in its ETS, a veteran market expert has said, warning that speculator holding limits similar to those seen in other carbon markets could be inevitable.

Embattled California utility Pacific Gas & Electric may reject power purchase agreements (PPAs) as it seeks to reorganise itself, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may not intervene on those decisions, a bankruptcy court ruled late Friday.

South Korean state-owned power company KEPCO and trading firm Ecoeye are investing in a mangrove forest project in Myanmar that will be registered under the CDM and generate offsets eligible in the Korean emissions trading scheme.

The Western Australia EPA on Monday began a new consultation round for its GHG guidelines, after being forced to withdraw a previous proposal that included an obligation for all major projects to offset their carbon emissions.

A California budget compromise would funnel the state's WCI cap-and-trade auction revenues to workforce training and safe drinking water programmes, potentially conflicting with a legislative counsel opinion that found carbon funds must be used to directly reduce emissions until 2021.

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