Carbon Pulse

The EU carbon market is an ever more important driver of emissions cuts, but soaring allowance prices are also increasing participants’ anxiety over competitiveness, according to a survey published Monday.

The UK government appears to have slashed by over 30% the number of allowances it will freely allocate to industry this year under its new emissions trading scheme.

EUAs rose to a new record above €52 on Monday, amid signs of further investor buying and seemingly low prospects for market intervention.

The Netherlands has awarded €2 bln to an offshore CCS project that public institutions say is “absolutely necessary” to reach the country’s climate goals, with the money to be channelled through a carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) scheme.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) on Monday adopted the final version of European Climate Law to set the EU’s net zero objective into national legislation, the second-to-last hurdle to its final ratification.

US biofuel credit prices (RINs) continued their torrid spring stretch on Monday after the Colonial Pipeline was hacked over the weekend, disrupting a major source of refined fuel products for the eastern part of the country.

Now that EU ETS compliance is over with for another year, the market can metaphorically wash its hands and move on to the next course of this never-ending feast of carbon: the start of the UK ETS. The world's newest carbon market is set to kick off, with both the inaugural free allocation and first auctions imminent. But where will UKAs price?

New Zealand carbon allowances have slid to a three-week low as demand slumps in the run-up to the May 31 compliance deadline, emitters’ last ever chance to take advantage of the fixed price option (FPO).

Developer Terra Carbon received the largest share of some 300,000 new carbon credits handed out by the Clean Energy Regulator over the past week, while the government has added five years to the ACCU crediting period for some landfill gas projects.

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