Carbon Pulse

The European Commission this week quietly published over 12 years’ worth of trading records from the EU ETS emissions registry, offering a comprehensive glimpse of how hundreds of billions tonnes of CO2 were shifted across more than a million transactions.

Low oil and gas prices are no boon for the climate in the short term, but they give us a window into a future of ever-decreasing fossil fuel demand that may deter expansion an opportunity to put in place policies that get us paying to decarbonise the fossil fuels we dig up, argues Eli Mitchell-Larson of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute.

German power generator EnBW advanced its hedging over Q1 to maintain its slightly advanced position, it said in financial results on Friday, providing a bearish signal for EUAs even as the company said it saw limited impacts from the coronavirus.

UN body ICAO’s Council will push back a decision on lifting temporary restrictions to Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) credits approved for the global aviation offset system CORSIA, standard and developer manager Verra told Carbon Pulse.

The European Parliament approved on Friday a resolution demanding an ambitious 7-year EU budget and recovery plan amounting to €2 trillion, which could see revenues from auctioned EUAs and imported carbon-intensive goods earmarked in the EU’s general budget.

Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.

EUAs were poised for a small weekly loss on Friday as prices eased back from an early gain despite stronger energy prices and lower supply over the next two weeks.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has minted over 320,000 new carbon credits, taking the total so far this year past six million and keeping the agency on track for what it expects to be a record year.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator is willing to buy carbon credits above A$16 ($10.35) in between auctions to assist the market if offset prices slump due to the COVID-19 crisis, Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor said Friday.

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California Carbon Offset (CCO) prices collapsing this spring has made the process of selling and developing compliance offsets more difficult, as ‘shelter-in-place’ restrictions across the US could present issues for certain verification activities down the road, stakeholders said Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices continued to zero in on the WCI floor price this week as strong demand persisted on the secondary market, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) fell back on thin volume.

European carbon prices will recover in the coming years as the EU puts decarbonisation front and centre in its post-coronavirus rebuilding efforts, investment bank JP Morgan said.

Germany had been badly lagging behind its EU target for cutting emissions from non-ETS sectors before the coronavirus pandemic kicked in, with 2019 marking the fourth year in a row the country had missed its goal, a study released on Thursday found.

German utility RWE ramped up hedging of its remaining big-emitting lignite output over Q1 as its thermal output continued to declined rapidly, the company said in quarterly results on Thursday.

EUAs dipped on Thursday to stay close to this week's five-week bottom, shrugging off stronger energy prices on light volume.

NZUs rose to their highest levels since mid-March on Thursday as the government announced major spending in a budget to get the economy back on track, though the ETS still faces large uncertainties.

South Korean ETS emissions fell for the first time in 2019 driven by CO2 cuts in the power sector, leaving the market overall marginally long, the environment ministry said Thursday.

A federal court will likely hear arguments in late June about whether California’s ETS linkage to Quebec violates the US Constitution’s Foreign Affairs Doctrine by conflicting with the Trump administration’s decision to leave the Paris Agreement, according to documents filed late Wednesday.

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