Carbon Pulse

The Green Climate Fund has held its first meeting in a process the UN-led entity hopes will lead to an October session where rich countries will refill its coffers.

The Institute for Ecological Economics is currently inviting applications for a 30-40 hours/week third-party-funded project staff member (post-doc) Climate Economics and Finance Research Group.

CPI has recently been asked by the membership of the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance to assume the role of the organization’s Secretariat for a minimum two-year period beginning in May 2019.

Climate Advisers seeks an Executive and Program Assistant to coordinate office administration and provide administrative support to the President.

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California’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (IEMAC) should focus its attention on the WCI programme's allowance oversupply and provide concrete remedies if a problem if determined, along with examining the state's current forestry offset protocol, a legislator said Friday.

California regulator ARB is proposing to establish a “firm maximum” price for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits and an advance crediting mechanism to bolster the programme’s existing cost containment provisions, officials said at a workshop on Friday.

A US appeals court on Friday threw out parts of a 2016 EPA regulation limiting the use of HFCs, coming nearly two years after the same court overturned another Obama-era regulation governing the high global warming potential gases.

This week's surge in EUA prices slowed on Friday, though strong gains in key energy contracts and more speculative buying still helped push carbon to a new 2.5-year high to leave it with a 14% weekly gain.

Emitter buying in Germany’s weekly EUA auctions fell to a nine-month low in February, a report released Friday showed.

The Queensland government has allocated A$1 million ($710,000) under its Land Restoration Fund to six pilot projects designed to help develop the Australian state’s carbon offset market.

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

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator would likely come under pressure to cancel Emission Reductions Fund contracts under a new government, as Labor’s climate policy would push up secondary market ACCU prices, a legal expert has warned.

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California and Quebec entities continued to stretch the joint cap-and-trade programme’s vast permit surplus even further after picking up additional unsold allowances during the first quarter of 2019, according to WCI data.

New speculators are continuing to drive California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices ever higher on the secondary market, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) found their own support after levelling off the previous week, numerous traders said.

Virginia GOP lawmakers are using the budget process to prevent the state from joining the northeast US RGGI market in 2020, after Governor Ralph Northam (D) vetoed bills this year attempting to block that linkage.

EU carbon prices have surged by around 15% so far this week on the back of bullish buying stoked by Brexit optimism and supported by a rising energy complex, but some have questioned whether the sharp gains are warranted or sustainable, especially in light of worsening fundamentals.