Carbon Pulse

Upcoming changes to the world’s largest voluntary carbon crediting programme promise to look broader and deeper than simple tweaks to methodologies, according to the organisation’s CEO David Antonioli, pointing to past trends that have seen more fundamental shifts in the standard.

EU foreign ministers on Monday failed to unanimously agree on a call to push for a global phaseout of fossil fuels, though officials promised a fresh approach on the bloc’s climate diplomacy.

The gulf between standardised nature-based contracts and newer vintages in the REDD+ avoided deforestation market remained very wide over the past week, while prices for standard CORSIA-eligible credits dropped lower.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) price volatility evaporated this week as market participants dismissed the near-term impacts of New Jersey accelerating its 100% clean electricity target, while a state-owned Chinese oil company opened a speculative account in the power sector carbon market.

European political discourse around recently-agreed EU carbon market reforms has seen some lawmakers stating clear opinions on their preferred price levels, but traders seem to have different ideas, ignoring those views in the short term as levels hit fresh records.

Germany could cancel up to 14 million EU ETS allowances from the country's auctions next year,  according to analysts, after a government ministry reportedly said it was in favour of removing the permits from the market to counterbalance the impact of its coal plant closures.

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European carbon set a new record high on Monday morning as participants continued to eye a run at the €100 barrier amid a combination of supportive fundamentals and speculative trading, while energy prices reversed Friday's losses amid bullish weather forecasts.

The president of Malawi has said that he wants the country to produce 5 million carbon credits per year to generate as much as $100 million and boost employment in the African nation, domestic media reported Monday.

A Shanghai-listed forestry and paper company has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Beijing Green Exchange to explore the potential of forest carbon sinks, as part of its plan to further tap into the domestic voluntary market.

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A trial to electrify communities in New South Wales has led to renewed calls by some for Australia to commit to cutting emissions by replacing fossil-fuel based home appliances and vehicles, rather than turning to hydrogen or biogas, which they deem costly and inefficient.

South Korea has issued a tender for assistance to develop the 4th basic plan for its domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS), which will incorporate the country's updated climate goals for 2030, expected to significantly increase the ambition of the scheme.

Heavy industries in Australia can cut their emissions by as much as 92% by 2050 in an ambitious decarbonisation scenario outlined in a report from an industry-led study group released in Sydney on Monday.

A US-based venture capitalist group has acquired a stake in an Australian carbon finance organisation to ramp up its data and analytics offerings.

A first global initiative has been launched by marine ecologists in Australia that sets an ambitious target of restoring 1 million hectares of kelp forests by 2040, aiming to reverse the climate change-induced decline of the ecologically valuable seaweed species, it was announced on Sunday.