Carbon Pulse

*PREMIUM LISTING - For over 15 years, Carbon Limits has been providing advice to public and private entities on climate policy, carbon pricing instruments and carbon markets, decarbonization strategies and emissions accounting, and monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions and emission reductions. As a result of the quality of our work and our growing reputation, we are expanding fast and are therefore looking for team members with over 6 years of experience as a consultant.

EU lawmakers on a key parliamentary committee on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to support a European Commission proposal to strengthen the supply-curbing MSR.

Carbon snapped a series of five daily gains in early trading on Tuesday as demand shrank and the daily auction cleared at a sharp discount, while energy markets rallied as natural gas flows on the Yamal pipeline declined.

Thermal power generation in China rose 4.3% year-on-year in the first two months of 2022 as the economy performed better than expected over the period, official data showed Tuesday.

Based in our Sydney Dealing Room, the Senior Associate Carbon Market Sales position is both diverse and challenging opportunity that will include engagement with key stakeholders with a focus on providing financial market based risk management solutions to support our clients make net-zero commitments.

With no news still of when China’s national offset programme might restart, it is becoming increasingly likely that this might not happen until 2023 due to the number of issues that need to be resolved, one analyst has claimed.

Soil carbon developer AgriProve Solutions has had more than 30 new projects registered by the Clean Energy Regulator, while fresh regulator data indicated a downturn in ACCU delivery numbers to the Emissions Reductions Fund had already began in late February.

Following the release of the Transition Trends Report 2022, Reuters Events will host an exclusive dialogue of industry leaders, to analyse and digest the key findings from 3,000+. The panel will feature senior executives from Deloitte, Octopus Energy and EDP. Please RSVP for attendance.

Despite the recent price correction in New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme, market participants expect Wednesday’s auction to trigger the release of the full 7 million allowances in the cost containment reserve (CCR).

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As Project Manager, you will play a critical role in the development, expansion, and validation of ecosecurities’ Community and Clean Energy program within internationally recognised carbon standards. The role will provide technical skills and analysis in community and decentralized clean energy projects.

ecosecurities is seeking an NBS Carbon Technical Manager to assist in developing a pipeline of new climate mitigation projects in Latin America.

The role will provide technical skills and analysis in forest carbon, blue carbon, ecosystem services and natural resource management to complete high impact and innovative carbon development projects. The role also brings deep expertise in current and emerging AFOLU voluntary carbon standards, methodologies and procedural requirements to ensure compliance and development of projects of the highest integrity.

ecosecurities is seeking a Carbon Project Originator to assist in developing a pipeline of new climate mitigation projects in East Africa. This originator will be responsible for conducting project feasibility assessments, providing technical guidance and moving priority opportunities to full-scale development, and estimations of the technical, financial, social and climate eligibility & viability of potential carbon projects.

The role will provide technical skills and analysis in carbon accounting for agriculture cropping, livestock management, grasslands and land management in order to complete high impact and innovative carbon development projects. The role will bring deep expertise in current and emerging AFOLU voluntary carbon standards, methodologies and procedural requirements to ensure compliance and development of projects of the highest integrity.

This position will play a critical role in supporting the development, expansion, and validation of ecosecurities’ Nature-Based Solutions program within internationally recognised voluntary carbon standards. The role will provide technical skills and analysis in forest carbon to support the development of high-impact and innovative carbon development projects.

The EU carbon market is too volatile and unpredictable to offer stable investment signals, and is overrun by speculators, as is evidenced by the recent price crash, the head of a major European utility has said.

Prices for exchange-traded, standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) contracts continued to unravel over the early part of the week as nature-based units dropped well into the single digits, though credit values shot back up in recent days alongside a rebound in global carbon allowance prices.

The energy crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may redivert investment from low-carbon technologies to fossil fuels due to security of supply fears and more supportive economic conditions, a conference heard Monday.

Tech giant Microsoft last week documented the challenges in buying carbon removals as part of its new 1.5 Mt procurement, outlining difficulties that range from a lack of high-quality credits and common standards to a previously-contracted forest offset project burning down.