Carbon Pulse

New global carbon markets and heightened consumer and corporate interest will bolster international demand for land-based offset projects developed in Alberta despite concerns about environmental integrity, Canadian environmental consultants said on Wednesday.

More than 260 installations and airlines operating under the EU ETS, or just over 2% of the total covered, were listed as being in non-compliance with the scheme for 2017, data published by the European Commission on Wednesday showed.

The European Commission has proposed to earmark a fifth of EU ETS auction revenue for the post-Brexit 2021-2027 central EU budget, for which it wants to raise climate-related spending by 5%.

One of Australia’s leading climate and energy policy experts has taken up a new role as senior climate and energy advisor to the Victorian state government.

The Aboriginal Carbon Fund has launched a new fund seeking to trade carbon credits that provide additional environmental, social and cultural benefits for indigenous communities in Australia.

If Australia wants to use international carbon credits to meet its Paris target it should start seeking out potential bilateral partnerships now, but may find many governments reluctant to export them, according to observers.

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New York's Integrating Public Policy Task Force (IPPTF) on Monday published its latest report on how the state could impose a carbon price within its wholesale electricity markets, detailing measures to address possible emissions leakage and ratepayer burdens.

Having conceded defeat in passing a cap-and-trade bill in Oregon this year, one of the state's highest profile carbon pricing proponents is working with lawmakers through the rest of 2018 to again prepare for a renewed legislative push next year.

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Power sector emissions capped by RGGI rose by 22% in Q1, spurred by a colder winter in the northeast US and bucking a three-year drop.

EU carbon prices dipped on Tuesday in a rare auction-free session that was relatively thinly traded with much of Europe on a public holiday.

The promotion of carbon markets by business groups including IETA has been labelled a “dangerous distraction” to climate action by transparency campaigners seeking a more clearly-defined structure for accessing UN climate negotiations.

A US-based emissions reduction project developer has been advancing a large portfolio of developing-world offset projects for the South Korean carbon market, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The fledgling market for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) is seeing signs of an early supply squeeze despite limited demand for the credits beyond the government.

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Projects that facilitate the use of bicycles in developing nations, including installing bike lanes and parking lots and implementing bike-sharing programmes, now qualify for carbon credits, a UN panel has decided.

A combination of existing provincial carbon pricing schemes along with the federal ‘backstop’ would significantly reduce Canada's GHG emissions through 2022 while slowing GDP growth less than recent estimates, according to a new report.

Lacking buyers for their carbon credits, African nations are appealing to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other institutions to finance their carbon-cutting activities as Paris Agreement rulebook talks drag on.

EU carbon prices barely budged on Monday in trade muted by tomorrow's European public holiday as observers grew wary over whether the market could sustain recent gains with the annual compliance season now over.