Carbon Pulse

Do you seek an experience where you have the ability to contribute to climate change policy and the opportunity to support ongoing integration in the implementation of strategic and operational policy? The Climate Change Policy Branch is seeking two temporary Policy Advisors for a 24-month term who are self-motivated and experienced at policy development, agile in working on critical policy initiatives and creative in resolving complex policy and regulatory problems.

The Ontario government has released a framework for its voluntary offset programme, approving three quantification methodologies under an ‘open architecture’ approach that doesn’t limit project types.

Blockchain-based carbon credit platform Poseidon has committed to spend its first tranche of cash to buying Peruvian REDD credits from UK-based Ecosphere+, as part of an initiative offering a voluntary carbon credit platform for retailers.

New York's grid operator has floated options for how the state might apply a carbon price to the price of traded electricity in concert with RGGI, with one alternative requiring that power suppliers provide more data than is currently required.

EU carbon prices briefly climbed to a new seven-year high above €14 on Monday, gaining for the seventh consecutive session as observers pointed to further gains.

Australia’s federal government over the weekend issued a new discussion paper on the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), shrugging off massive criticism to stand firm on the scheme’s overall emissions ambition, approach to state-based renewables targets and use of carbon offsets.

Slovakia broke EU law by imposing a tax on sold or unused EU carbon allowances, Europe’s top court has ruled, a verdict that could cost the government tens of millions of euros.

EDF's Global Climate team seeks a Senior Analyst to provide critical research and analysis in support of our U.S. focused efforts to advance market-based policy solutions to address climate change. As a key player on a growing team, the Senior Analyst will inform our advocacy as we work to strengthen and expand carbon pricing regimes at the state level, and begin to lay the foundation for ambitious carbon pricing policy at the federal level.

The Bank seeks a Climate policy post-doctoral research contractual to work in partnership with stakeholders across the IDB Group, Latin America and the Caribbean, and provide excellent technical support in designing, executing, procuring, monitoring and disseminating cutting-edge and relevant research to inform the design of effective and acceptable climate policies in the region.

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EU carbon prices ended higher for the sixth straight session on Friday, briefly climbing above €14 and near their seven-year high, though some warned weak auction demand could soon signal a correction.

The Alaska government produced a draft climate change policy this week that instructs the US state to begin looking at how carbon pricing may help achieve the state’s climate goals, though the text remained sparse on details.

Both the New Jersey Assembly and Senate approved two bills on Thursday to expand the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) for conventional and solar renewable energy, as well as establishing a Zero Emission Certificate (ZEC) programme aimed at supporting struggling nuclear plants.

Governments at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted on Friday an initial strategy to address international shipping emissions, including setting a 2050 target to cut emissions by at least 50% under 2008 levels.

An experienced Singapore-based energy markets executive has left Engie Global Markets.

Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week handed out over 285,000 carbon credits, but no new offset projects sought registration despite the deadline for joining the next ERF auction being just a week away.

A new draft of Australia’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) leaked this week addresses some technical concerns, but the federal government has yet to release an update on political issues of the scheme, such as its overall emissions target.

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The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) finalised two offset protocols for use in the province’s cap-and-trade programme on Thursday, while also updating a third.