Carbon Trading
EU carbon market reform unlikely – report
Thomson Reuters Point Carbon revises its carbon price estimates and assumes that there will be no short term fix for Europe’s struggling cap and trade system
Hedegaard, WWF, PwC react to EU carbon market vote
Ministers and campaigners react to the news that the EU’s flagship climate change policy will not be urgently reformed, leading some to write it off as “irrelevant”
Debate on effectiveness of EU carbon trading reopens
Emissions fell 1.4% despite the current ineffective state of the Emissions Trading Scheme and increase in coal use
Voluntary carbon markets offer hope for climate challenge
Key market for business wishing to manage carbon footprint in good health according to analysts Carbon Clear
China to start work on national carbon market in 2015
Officials say local pilot schemes will be the focus of all efforts until 2015 and only then will work on a nation-wide programme begin in earnest
Broken EU carbon market has limited climate impact – report
Report finds EU carbon trading has reduced emissions of those taking part by 2-4%, but planned reforms must go ahead to ensure future reductions
US carbon market a model for struggling EU ETS
RGGI market on US east coast will cut available allowances by 45% while EU struggles to force through critical amendments
Five things we learned about climate change this week
How sincere is President Obama’s change of heart? Melting ice is more than just a climate indicator and carbon trading has an eventful week
EU carbon market faces bleak future after vote defeat
Price of carbon at record low after plans to prop up market are vetoed by key EU Parliament committee
Russia exploring plans for domestic carbon market
Ministry of Economic Development to draw up plans for a national carbon market by March
Kazakhstan and Croatia join world’s carbon trading schemes
Countries become latest in long line to establish emission trading schemes in effort to reduce their greenhouse gas output
Carbon market shrinks 36% but signs for a prosperous 2013 remain
Low cost per tonne of CO2 triggers record number of trades while new policies and expanding market hope for 2013
Plans to build 292 Himalayan hydroelectric dams described as “train wreck”
Climate Live: The latest climate change headlines curated by RTCC, updated daily from 0830-1700 GMT
Schwarzenegger: California will lead US climate action
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the State’s newly opened cap and trade scheme is a “blueprint” for future American climate action
RTCC’s 2012 review – a year in climate change
12 months in focus: Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, an inconclusive Earth Summit in Rio and a promise from US President Obama to finally address global warming
Coal to be largest source of energy by end of decade, warns IEA
Climate Live: The latest climate change headlines curated by RTCC, updated daily from 0830-1700 GMT
The world’s carbon trading schemes mapped
The world’s carbon markets mapped, from California to Vietnam.
How the UN climate talks can glue together a global carbon market
COP18: Fragmentation of the carbon market spells trouble for the climate unless a way is found to make national and regional schemes in step with international efforts to reduce emissions.
What does business want from the UN climate change talks?
COP18: With billions of dollars needed to prepare for and reduce the impact of climate change, what can negotiators do in Doha to smooth the path for greater private sector involvement?
What’s the cure for the EU’s aviation emissions headache?
J Robert Gibson explores the options facing the European Union as it seeks to include aviation emissions into its carbon trading scheme