Carbon Pulse

Hawaii's carbon tax proposal will not go through in 2018, a state lawmaker told Carbon Pulse on Thursday, marking the latest sub-national US carbon pricing proposal to fail to muster enough legislative support this year.

US oil major ExxonMobil continued its brisk pace of Colombian CER cancellations this week, annulling another huge batch against the country’s carbon tax.

Manitoba’s NDP party has threatened to delay legislation to enact the province’s proposed carbon tax as it seeks to force the ruling conservatives to include measures to support low-carbon investment, the leader of the official opposition said Thursday.

Recently-agreed EU ETS reforms will greatly reduce the carbon price-damping impact of overlapping policies until the mid-2020s, but will require further tweaking after that, according to new research.

Australia’s proposed National Energy Guarantee (NEG) faces its first major test later this month when it will be put to state energy ministers, but expectations are growing that the policy will survive the meeting despite lingering concerns over what it is likely to achieve.

EU carbon prices fell below €13 on Thursday as another lacklustre auction failed to tempt traders into betting on a quick rebound.

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The supply of California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) is forecast to balloon over the next few years regardless of looming post-2020 limitations on their use, according to analysts.