Carbon Pulse

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

Reporting to the Business Development Team, this position will be responsible for supporting engagement with key stakeholders and partners within the Gold Standard Network Platform and other related programmes.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to lead CDP Europe’s Corporate Engagement initiatives and a dynamic group of talented colleagues.

The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) is seeking a new Director General. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in guiding global research and action on sustainable development.

We offer challenging and varying tasks in a dynamic working environment in NDF's office in central Helsinki. The position is for two years with a possibility for extension.

Established Global Investment Management Firm is seeking to hire an Climate Economist. The Firm prides itself for independent thought.

European development bank EBRD is proposing to extend its shadow price of carbon beyond coal to all its energy investments over the next five years, which are mainly in eastern Europe and north Africa, it said Wednesday.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued more than 1.3 million new offsets this week, while over 5 mln existing credits saw their invalidation periods expire during the past two weeks, according to state data.

More than 500 companies have aligned with the TCFD to improve their climate risk reporting, according to a survey released on Wednesday, though what is put out is often too vague for investors.

Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) prices under the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) dropped to a new five-year low on Tuesday on renewed talk of the Trump administration’s push for a reform package for the biofuels industry.

European carbon prices plunged on Wednesday after Poland’s spot auction cleared at a massive discount to the secondary market.

China has 259GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity under construction, equivalent to the total US coal plant fleet, despite Beijing's efforts to hold back carbon-intensive development, a report found on Wednesday.

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

The inclusion of a speaker from a fossil fuel-tied think-tank at an Oregon legislative hearing on Tuesday drew criticism from stakeholders who said the appearance was detracting from the state’s efforts to develop a carbon reduction policy, including a cap-and-trade system, ahead of the 2019 legislative session.

Northeast US states are making progress in developing a programme to regulate transportation emissions from 13 states, but the initiative still needs to tackle some significant questions.

The cancellation of Ontario’s carbon market and green energy programmes has put the jurisdiction in danger of backsliding on its recent progress in cutting greenhouse gases, according to a report issued Tuesday by the province’s environmental watchdog.

The UK opposition left-wing Labour party said on Tuesday that it would set a net zero 2050 emissions target should it win the country’s next election.

European carbon slid by more than euro on Tuesday on technical selling, weaker energy prices, and as another weak auction failed to inspire confidence that buyers would emerge to push EUAs back to their recent 10-year high.

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

Applying a carbon charge to New York’s wholesale electricity markets would stimulate GHG cuts from generators exempt from the northeast US RGGI programme, while bigger in-state units covered by the carbon market would see an increase in emissions, according to new analysis presented on Monday.