Carbon Pulse

EU carbon prices slipped below €20 on Monday, continuing their slide from late last week but clawing back from a €1 intraday drop.

ICF, a global consultancy firm, is searching for an junior climate change and sustainability consultant to support climate, energy efficiency and transportation line of business. The role will be responsible for carrying out domestic and international projects in the sustainability and climate fields.

Assisting CBI’s Market Development Director and the Latin America team on the delivery of key objectives for the LatAm Green Finance Programme. The Programme Manager will act as a project lead, executing all aspects of activity planning, budgeting and delivery for the programme.

China has already met two of its three climate commitments for 2020 and is in a good position to meet its 2030 goal under the Paris Agreement, officials said Monday, without committing to strengthening those goals.

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EU carbon prices fell back towards €20 from a fresh six-week high on Friday as crashing crude prices jolted markets.

A few more weeks of wild volatility stand between EU carbon prices currently anchored around €20 and the resumption of the bull run that has been on pause since mid-September, analysts predict.

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

New Zealand carbon allowances this week halted their slide below the market's de facto price ceiling as compliance buyers emerged to provide support.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week issued just shy of 20,000 carbon credits, only a tenth of the recent weekly average, highlighting concerns over the market’s ability to meet potential increasing demand under a strengthened Safeguard Mechanism.

CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technical Reporting team which develops the CDP questionnaires and the reporting guidance.

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American Progress has an immediate opening for a Director of International Climate Policy. The Director of International Climate Policy will lead the Energy and Environment team’s work to develop and execute a program to support the framework of the Paris climate agreement and engage state and local governments, tribes, universities, and other subnational actors in climate diplomacy.

The German government will seek to postpone publication of the final report of its coal exit commission until January amid opposition, according to media reports.

European carbon prices rose to a six-week high on Thursday, ahead of a reduction in new supply and the first auction-free day in over two months.

California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) rose throughout the week before dipping after the November auction settlement results were released on Wednesday, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) increased slightly on thin volume.

Australia’s leading opposition party, expected to win next year’s election, won’t push for an outright carbon price for electricity generators, but is open to establishing a market mechanism to reduce emissions in other sectors.

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South Africa’s finance minister on Tuesday introduced the government’s long-awaited carbon tax bill in the National Assembly, a week after the Treasury released updated offset regulations.

The final California-Quebec current vintage auction of 2018 settled at a discount to the future sale for the first time in the carbon market's history, according to results released Wednesday.