Carbon Pulse

A new blockchain venture sold only a modest number of carbon tokens over its three-day fundraising event that closed Saturday, an outcome participants said was a result of difficult overall market conditions rather than a signal that crypto’s inroads into carbon are coming to an end.

China has eased its tone on energy control efforts in this weekend’s annual government work report, focusing instead on achieving its GDP growth targets.

Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority (CCA) on Monday launched its review of the use of international carbon credits, while the market remained quiet as traders continued to ponder the implications of last week’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) exit option announcement.

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The Global Green Growth Institute is looking for a program manager to support preparedness for Article 6 cooperation.

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Verra is seeking two Registry Administrators to handle all day-to-day registry functions of the Verra Registry.

Emitters and speculators under the WCI cap-and-trade programme saw their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions dwindle this week amid the February contract expiry and the beginning of a massive price decrease, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

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 the near-final passage of a cap-and-trade related bill in Washington state.

Blue carbon projects are unlikely to see a rapid scale-up in credit issuance volumes due to long-lead times for some activities and difficulty in designing verifiable methods in other areas, a conference heard Friday.

A Canadian alternative ESG investor financing carbon projects has hired as strategic advisors the controversial former head of the UN Environment Programme and a lawyer who served multiple US Republican presidents and a climate sceptic organisation, the company announced Friday.

A draft opinion in the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) review proposal late on Thursday, with a draft report being adopted without major changes in the cross-party industry committee with 52 votes to 13, 5 abstentions.

EUAs overcame a weak start to post modest gains on Friday morning in calm trade after three days of extreme volatility, while energy prices rose strongly amid Russian attacks around nuclear reactors in Ukraine and reports that sanctions against Moscow may soon add some energy products.

Volumes spiked in China’s emissions market over the past week as a number of emitters carried out OTC deals to belatedly finalise their 2019 and 2020 compliance, but price levels remained largely unmoved.

Ongoing financing of coal fired-power construction in India will make it harder for the country to meet its stated target to reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by 45% by 2030, and in turn keep its climate pathway unaligned with Paris Agreement goals, a report has found.

One of China’s provinces has said it will not approve carbon forest projects for the international voluntary market this year, sparking concerns among developers that the same policy will spread to other regions.

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EU carbon prices will recover from their recent speculator-led crash as the focus shifts back to fundamentals, analysts at BloombergNEF said, arguing that the market would benefit from the stability delivered by more participants.

Australia’s decision to allow project developers to exit offset contracts with the government in order to increase secondary market supply had caused a 24% drop in ACCU prices by early Friday afternoon and will likely damage overall confidence in the nation’s carbon market, according to experts.

The UK is likely to miss its 2050 net zero emissions target because of a failure to put in place credible plans to encourage essential investment by consumers and businesses, a cross-party group of UK lawmakers said in a report on Friday.