Carbon Pulse

Fewer people believe China’s national carbon market will be fully operational this decade, a new survey has revealed, as policy risks and expectations of lower allowance prices fuel pessimism and hold back industry from making low-carbon investment.

New Zealand carbon permits rose to all-time highs for the third time this year in Tuesday trade as a dearth in available supply keeps pushing prices up.

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Ontario carbon allowances held in WCI cap-and-trade accounts equal roughly 1% of the total number of permits held by California and Quebec entities, raising questions regarding the future of those units as well as the scheme’s overall emissions cap moving forward.

The role of the Governance Programme Director is to design, organize and implement a renewed strategy for IDDRI’s « Governance » programme, relying on IDDRI’s added value and differentiation, its impact as well as anticipation capacity, and its complementarity with other players, identifying IDDRI’s priority activities in the institutionalised sustainable development agenda.

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EU carbon prices climbed above €16 for the first time in a month on Monday as power prices continued their heatwave-induced climb.

Reports that China has withdrawn from the voluntary first phases of the UN’s CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme are inaccurate, according to a representative of China’s delegation to ICAO.

New Ontario Premier Doug Ford should hold consultations on his plan for unwinding the province’s cap-and-trade programme and how that will affect Ontario's emissions reduction targets, according to the leader of the province’s environmental watchdog.

Environmental sleuths have tracked down what they believe is the location of a large illegal source of ozone-destroying emissions.

New Zealand fuel supplier Z Energy has bought nearly 60,000 voluntary carbon credits at prices higher than in the nation’s mandatory ETS to offset its operational emissions.

The goal of the new position is to become an integral part of Cap-Op team with primary contributions to existing lines of business and representing Cap-Op to clients, government and NGO bodies.

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EU carbon prices rebounded from a morning dip to end Friday within reach of the previous session’s one-month high, as the ongoing heatwave boosted prospects for an uptick in utility demand.

Norway’s state-owned oil and gas producer Equinor has acquired Danish energy trading firm Danske Commodities (DC) for €400 million euros ($470 mln), it announced Friday.

Voters in Arizona will decide in November whether to endorse a marked increase in the US state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) after campaigners turned in more than double the necessary signatures for the ballot initiative on Thursday.

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 has issued 367,879 carbon credits over the past two weeks, with a NSW-based forestry scheme earning nearly a third of the volume.

China has launched a carbon trading scheme to improve fuel efficiency for vehicles and boost the production of so-called new energy vehicles (NEVs), though the government’s own data shows the market will be over-supplied in its early years.

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