Carbon Pulse

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

We are seeking self-motivated individual in Houston who will work collaboratively with the US Emissions trading desk to provide superior analytics to help quantify opportunities and risks. This integral team member will convey that work into tangible reports, analysis and recommendations for the commercial and trading teams.

Finland should give priority to helping develop an EU-wide emissions trading scheme that covers road transport rather than design its own domestic system, a Finnish cross-ministerial committee has opined.

California gasoline consumption rose in October but still stayed beneath pre-pandemic levels, as diesel usage fell significantly from a decade-high watermark the month prior, according to state data published Friday.

RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program is seeking a Manager to join our Carbon Markets and Offsets Initiative. This new initiative seeks to improve the transparency, efficiency, and quality of offset markets, ultimately accelerating progress towards a 50 percent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050.

Nature-based voluntary emissions reduction (VER) contracts soared to new peaks last week on heavy volume as market participants said commodity trading houses and funds were joining fossil fuel companies in snapping up both standardised and project-specific units.

A group of 57 green finance experts advising the EU has slammed European Commission plans to label gas and nuclear power investments as sustainable, strongly opposing what it saw as loose emissions curbs for gas projects.

European governments are under increasing pressure to protect households from sky-high heating and power prices under the unfolding region’s gas crisis, but the resulting relief programmes have the potential to dampen carbon pricing signals and put the bloc's climate targets at risk.

A European carbon project developer is in discussions with 20 host governments to secure correspondingly adjusted carbon credits for the voluntary market, amid building corporate demand.

EUA prices rose in response to a ratcheting up of tensions over Russian activities on the border with Ukraine, though carbon's rise did not match energy markets as weaker equities dampened enthusiasm.

We are looking for a Carbon Market Correspondent based in Australia or New Zealand to help us bolster and expand our coverage.

If you enjoy working in a small, but rapidly growing team and delivering high quality work that has an impact, you will thrive working for Corporate Carbon.

Opportunity to step into a newly created role to drive and inform the decarbonisation ambitions of Viva Energy and its customers, by leading carbon and energy assessment, reduction, certification and reporting initiatives.

An emissions reduction scheme to curtail deforestation in Indonesia resulted in the prevention of around 70 MtCO2e over 2011-18 from being released into the atmosphere, but this amounted to just 3% of the total required by Indonesia’s NDC, a study has found.

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

The Commodity and Carbon Trading Solutions team is looking for a Manager to create commercial demand and deliver commodities trading expertise for operational, risk and regulatory propositions delivered in a wide range of project scenarios.

Compliance entities slashed their net short California Carbon Allowance (CCA) position for the fourth straight week, while financial players trimmed their net long, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

France reported limited progress by EU nations on climate issues on Friday, as ministers from across the bloc raised multiple issues over plans for a second ETS for buildings and transport.

A summary of legislative and regulatory action on carbon pricing, clean fuel standards, and clean energy at the US subnational and federal level this week, including in California, New Mexico, and Michigan.

A key EU parliamentarian wants all EU-connected flights to be fully powered by sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) by mid-century, EurActiv reported on Friday, citing a draft opinion on the bloc’s proposed green jet fuel law that would substantially raise ambition.