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Experts advocate New York carbon market design should follow North American model over European approach
Using North American automatic programme adjustments in the design of New York’s cap-and-invest scheme, rather than the supply-responsive approaches that their European counterparts use, would better serve to ensure programme stability, experts said Thursday.
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WCI Markets: CCAs stretch all-time highs near $38 as potential allowance budget cuts surprise, WCAs rise past Tier 2 reserve price
California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices barnstormed as much as 10% over the past two days to new record highs after the state published larger-than-expected scenarios for cutting cap-and-trade allowance supply, while Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) values climbed ahead of the programme's permit reserve sale next month.
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EU court rules against Swedish firm’s bid to stay in the EU ETS
A top EU court has ruled against a Swedish company’s bid to stay in the EU ETS despite its exclusively biomass-fueled operations that had resulted in the facility having almost no reportable CO2 emissions.
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Three Eastern EU nations seek to use REPowerEU funding for fossil fuels -report
Three EU governments are trying to direct public money towards more fossil fuels, rather than steering away as the 27-nation bloc’s overarching climate strategy requires, a report showed on Thursday.
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Voluntary carbon market braces for ‘ICVCM impact’ after framework release
A “good number” of carbon credit projects will fail to attain the ICVCM's Core Carbon Principles (CCP) integrity label, but some market experts judge there to be still too much wriggle room and ambiguity in the cross-stakeholder body's newly-released assessment framework.
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UNDP seeks to de-risk biodiversity credits under its tiger protection bonds
Around 15% of the bonds to be issued by the United Development Programme (UNDP) to help support tiger ecosystem protection in four Asian countries could be monetised through the sale of “high integrity biodiversity credits”, depending upon the ability to de-risk the credits through guarantee provisions.
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European utilities report drop in ETS-covered power generation as another steelmaker signals weak outlook
Multiple Europe-headquartered power generation firms reported a significant drop in EU ETS-covered output in quarterly results published late Wednesday and Thursday, while a large steel producer became the latest to flag a weak demand outlook due to wider macroeconomic uncertainty.
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UK government publishes price tiers for ‘net gain’ biodiversity credits
The British government has published provisional price tiers for its statutory biodiversity credits as part of upcoming net gain legislation, with the final values to be set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and subject to periodic review.
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Climate litigation on the increase worldwide, but legal questions remain -UNEP
Lawsuits are an increasingly important tool for holding governments and corporations accountable on climate, according to a report published Thursday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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EU donates €25 mln to FAO biodiversity, food programme
The EU has contributed an additional €25 million to the Food and Agricultural Organization’s Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWP) programme, with the funds set to benefit African biodiversity over the next six years.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update
European carbon prices stabilised at moderately lower levels on Thursday morning as the market appeared to find buying support after dropping by as much as €3.20 on Wednesday, while natural gas extended yesterday's sizeable losses as the August contract expiry neared.
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Biodiversity Pulse Weekly: Thursday July 27, 2023
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Malaysian Indigenous groups back controversial forestry deal
Sixteen native NGOs and associations on Thursday came out in favour of a contested carbon offset deal in Malaysia’s Sabah state that officials last year signed with a Singapore-registered shell company.
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Japan’s carbon pricing timeline too slow for its net zero goals -analysts
Japan's proposed timeline for a domestic carbon pricing mechanism could be too slow for the country to get aligned with its Paris Agreement goals, given the current emissions trajectory, a report has found.
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Companies call for broader use of Mean Species Abundance metric in TNFD framework
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) should make greater use of the Mean Species Abundance (MSA) metric in its framework as it is already used by many companies and would offer a number of benefits, according to a position paper issued by a group of European companies this week.
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Rio Tinto makes $800-mln write down on Australian alumina refineries due to Safeguard Mechanism
Miner Rio Tinto has written down the value of its Australian alumina refineries as it factors in the cost of buying Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) under the government’s reformed Safeguard Mechanism, saying it will continue to need to rely on offsets to meet its decarbonisation targets.
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Australian bank joins forces with soil carbon tech developer
An Australian bank has entered into a strategic alliance with a soil carbon project developer, financing a pilot project that will generate Australian Carbon Credit Units by pre paying for the first credits generated under the project, it announced Thursday.
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CP Daily: Wednesday July 26, 2023
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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ICVCM unveils global benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published the framework it will use to assess whether carbon credits meet its Core Carbon Principles integrity label, work that forges an uncertain path for many REDD projects and raises the bar on transparency.
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California carbon prices surge to all-time high after state floats steep allowance budget cuts
California regulator ARB on Wednesday presented several scenarios for removing cap-and-trade permits in order to hit the state’s more ambitious emissions reduction goals, sending allowance prices skyward as traders expressed surprise at the magnitude of the potential supply cuts.
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