Carbon Pulse

As a Quantitative Carbon Market Analyst in Veyt you will contribute to developing our modelling framework for the European emission trading system (EU ETS) as well as predictive models for a growing number of emission trading systems around the world.

A marine charity will reportedly apply to take the government to court next month to argue that it ignored the advice of an independent scientific body to set more stringent limits on fishing in 2024.

An industry initiative to produce a low-carbon precursor for green steel is setting its sights on using Sweden’s renewable energy and high-quality iron ore resources as the backdrop for large-scale production for European export.

The proposed revision of EU ETS free allocations fails to deliver social and environmental change, write Lidia Tamellini of Carbon Market Watch and Aymeric Amand of Sandbag.

Efforts to improve the digital mapping of land cover and calculate carbon stores over time have been pushed to the forefront in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) as stakeholders seek to strengthen the integrity and transparency of carbon projects.

Allowance prices in China’s carbon market reached an almost two-month high over the past week amid stable trading volumes, as the year-end compliance deadline is rapidly approaching. 

A California-based agri-tech firm has teamed up with a tea research institute in India to help farmers generate income through the generation and sale of carbon credits.

The state government of Queensland in Australia has banned new oil and gas development in the Lake Eyre region in a bid to protect vulnerable rivers and floodplains.

India needs to make sure that projects deemed eligible to supply carbon credits under its recently announced voluntary carbon market hold a high standard for the new programme to be a credible tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions, experts have warned.

Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina’s renewable energy division and forest developer PT Inhutani have signed an agreement for a nature-based solutions project in North Kalimantan, home to vast tropical forests.

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday evening passed a bill establishing a national cap-and-trade programme, though the legislation will now head back to the senate after undergoing a number of changes.

California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) and Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) both declined over the past week, as “random” end-of-year market dynamics took hold of thinning volume in the former, while the prices for the latter could be driven by weakening hydropower in the Pacific Northwest in the near future, market participants noted.

California gasoline sales for September dipped in comparison to levels seen in August while diesel consumption continued its upward trajectory for a second month, although both values hovered below 2022 levels, according to state data released Thursday.

Energy exchange EEX late Thursday published next year's EU carbon allowance auction schedule, showing a increase of 22% over the volume sold between January and August this year.

A twice-weekly summary of our biodiversity news plus bite-sized updates from around the world. All articles in this edition are free to read (no subscription required).

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Wednesday issued the first carbon offsets under the state's cap-and-invest programme, awarding them to two projects that collected and destroyed refrigerant gases.

Valuing ecosystem services with monetary figures of investments can help to show conservation activities' true profitability, Hague-headquartered ASN Bank has said.

A certifier’s new REDD+ methodology would have issued fewer carbon credits to past REDD+ projects in three of four cases studied, according to newly-published research, potentially mitigating over-crediting associated with forestry-based activities.

A key test of the impact of the COP28 UN climate talks will be whether the ambition filters through to countries’ updated NDC climate pledges, but experts say the vague language and loopholes of an otherwise breakthrough agreement could hamper this.