Carbon Pulse

Green hydrogen has the potential to emerge as a key contributor to decarbonisation if expectations for growth in electrolyser capacity and falling costs are met, although accelerated use by industry would still need to be pushed with the broader use of carbon pricing, research analysed by Carbon Pulse has found.

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Australian carbon credits fell below the A$50 ($35.91) level in Monday trade for the first time since Dec. 22 as an increase in available supply amid some profit-taking continued to weigh on prices.

Germany is considering delaying the closure of its remaining nuclear plants, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said Sunday, as the country seeks to bolster its energy supply amid a possible halt in Russian gas imports.

A start-up blockchain venture will on Mar. 1 launch a bridge to tokenise carbon offsets from Verra and the Gold Standard, followed by a three-day fundraising event that will go towards initial purchases of real-world carbon credits.

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European energy traders “accept the spirit” of a proposal to loosen the parameters governing a mechanism to respond to price spikes in the EU carbon market.

The long-time head of California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme will leave the government next week for a position with an international task force aiming to protect forests via jurisdictional REDD+ strategies.

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Friday denied the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) request for an expedited schedule in a lawsuit to publish the state’s RGGI-aligned regulation, which green groups said will delay its entrance to the Northeast US cap-and-trade market until at least July.

Financial participants parted with more California Carbon Allowances this week prior to the publication of results from the Q1 WCI auction, while compliance entities’ net short shrank to the smallest amount since May, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

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A Nevada-based mineral exploration company on Thursday announced a new subsidiary to research and potentially execute carbon credit streaming investments in Western US rangeland projects.

Russia banned all UK airlines from using its airspace on Friday in a move that will significantly impact British flights to Asia and result in overall lower demand, though the impact on European carbon markets is as yet unclear.

Germany-based utility RWE, the EU’s top corporate emitter, reported a 16.5% rise in its ETS-covered thermal power output for 2021, it said on Friday, upping its demand for carbon allowances.

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EUAs are unlikely to quickly recover a near-10% drop in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the impact of the conflict is too far-reaching, several analysts told Carbon Pulse, though others expect prices to bounce back somewhat as bargain-hunters step in and coal power remains well-supported.

EUAs posted moderate gains on Friday morning as traders regained confidence that Russian gas flows would not be interrupted amid modest sanctions, even as Russian forces advanced on the Ukrainian capital.