Carbon Pulse

Having now each filed in court their arguments against the Canadian federal carbon price, Saskatchewan and Ontario have revealed their hands and their arguments are weak, writes Nathalie Chalifour, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars.

A senior carbon and power trader has left US investment bank Citi's London office to join commodities trading house Freepoint, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A veteran carbon expert has left project developer Sindicatum to pursue other opportunities, Carbon Pulse has learned, several months after the Singapore-based firm sold its US and Asian offset portfolios.

Stronger efforts to cut GHG emissions including triple digit carbon prices should be made to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C without relying on potentially more expensive or risky removal technologies, an analysis found Thursday.

A newly-launched New Zealand carbon fund is aiming at planting 150 million trees on marginal land under a business model that would see the fund and land owners split revenue from carbon credit sales in the NZ ETS.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has signalled she is ready to increase the ambition of the nation's emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement, even as the country is preparing to meet a significant share of its existing goal through the international carbon market.

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We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to lead CDP Europe’s Corporate Engagement initiatives and a dynamic group of talented colleagues.

The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) is seeking a new Director General. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in guiding global research and action on sustainable development.

We offer challenging and varying tasks in a dynamic working environment in NDF's office in central Helsinki. The position is for two years with a possibility for extension.

Established Global Investment Management Firm is seeking to hire an Climate Economist. The Firm prides itself for independent thought.

European development bank EBRD is proposing to extend its shadow price of carbon beyond coal to all its energy investments over the next five years, which are mainly in eastern Europe and north Africa, it said Wednesday.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued more than 1.3 million new offsets this week, while over 5 mln existing credits saw their invalidation periods expire during the past two weeks, according to state data.

More than 500 companies have aligned with the TCFD to improve their climate risk reporting, according to a survey released on Wednesday, though what is put out is often too vague for investors.

Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) prices under the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) dropped to a new five-year low on Tuesday on renewed talk of the Trump administration’s push for a reform package for the biofuels industry.

European carbon prices plunged on Wednesday after Poland’s spot auction cleared at a massive discount to the secondary market.

China has 259GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity under construction, equivalent to the total US coal plant fleet, despite Beijing's efforts to hold back carbon-intensive development, a report found on Wednesday.

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The inclusion of a speaker from a fossil fuel-tied think-tank at an Oregon legislative hearing on Tuesday drew criticism from stakeholders who said the appearance was detracting from the state’s efforts to develop a carbon reduction policy, including a cap-and-trade system, ahead of the 2019 legislative session.