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EUAs dipped back towards €25 early on Friday amid continued moderate auction demand and as financial markets swooned on a resurgence of Covid-19 coronavirus cases.

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

Offset developers have sold over 340,000 carbon credits to Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) so far in February, while the Clean Energy Regulator this week issued nearly 280,000 new units.

Australia’s main opposition party, Labor, on Friday said it would set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 if it returns to office, without the use of Kyoto carryover credits, but declined to reveal any policy details.

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RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices this week exceeded the 2021 Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger price for the second time this year, while California Carbon Allowances (CCA) also increased ahead of the first quarterly sale of 2020.

Oregon Republicans are once again formalising plans to flee the state this week to scuttle the passage of the state’s WCI-modelled cap-and-trade bill, sources and local media reported.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) outlined a goal of cutting the environmental footprint of the nation's agriculture sector in half by 2050 on Thursday, with enhanced carbon storage from soil and forests seen as possible avenues to achieve that target.

EUAs extended further their four-week high early on Thursday, inching closer to their loftiest so far this year as some corners of the energy complex edged upwards and worries about the Covid-19 coronavirus continued to ease.

South Korea must phase out coal-fired power generation in less than a decade if it is to play its part of meeting the Paris Agreement goals, a research group said Thursday.

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Poland has proposed eliminating free carbon allowance allocations for aircraft operators covered by the EU ETS and wants to implement full auctioning for the sector, according to a document seen by Carbon Pulse.

Large stationary emitters regulated under Alberta’s outgoing Carbon Competitiveness Incentive Regulation (CCIR) are expected to surrender a similar number of offsets as the prior year at the upcoming March compliance deadline, government officials said Wednesday.

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More modest GHG reductions expected in California’s transportation sector and utility Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) anticipated involvement in 2020 auctions will lead WCI carbon prices higher than previously estimated this year, analysts said Wednesday.

The process to restart the UK’s EU carbon allowance auctions has not yet been completed, the British government announced late Wednesday, adding that it still intends to resume sales on Mar. 4.

California regulator ARB should address the growing oversupply of compliance instruments in the state’s cap-and-trade programme to ensure it remains on course to hit its long-term climate goal, a prominent state senator said Tuesday.

EUAs extended their four-week high above €25 early on Wednesday, though prices receded as traders await news of the UK's resumed auction schedule.

Economic disruptions in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China has reduced the country’s CO2 emissions by about quarter in the short term, an analyst said Wednesday, though that cut could be more than offset by the way the economy bounces back.