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Carbon trading

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UN attacks companies’ reliance on carbon credits to hit climate targets

    Draft policy document pushes for corporate cuts in emissions rather than using multimillion-dollar carbon trading market

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Carbon tax
    US examines carbon pricing on imports, top climate diplomat says

    John Podesta signals shift in policy targeting goods from ‘dirtier’ countries

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
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    China rivalry helps drive US carbon pricing debate Premium content

    Biden climate adviser John Podesta sits down with Moral Money to explain the administration’s shift in thinking

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    EU carbon market expansion to raise diesel prices

    Motorists set to pay an extra 50 cents a litre from 2031, estimates show

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  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Climate Leaders
    Papua New Guinea seeks to monetise its rainforests as a ‘carbon sink’

    But loggers and ‘carbon cowboys’ offer quicker returns to locals

    A man walks past felled timber in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Province
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Mark Carney
    Stop debating carbon markets and start building them

    The prize is huge if we can agree on standards and get this right

    A carbon capture facility in Iceland
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Labour to forge closer EU ties on carbon tax

    Party ‘looking very closely’ at options after Brexit leaves UK industries vulnerable to dumping

    A worker walks through coils of steel at a  Tata factory in the West Midlands
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Traders place record bets ahead of UK election on carbon credits price jump

    Move driven by expectations of a newly elected Labour government adopting stricter approach to big polluters

    Emissions rising from smokestacks
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Yellen warns companies not to rely on carbon credits to save the climate

    US Treasury secretary calls on business to prioritise emissions cuts as voluntary markets draw fire

    US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen speaks at an even in Germany
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Moral Money
    US Congressional report on Uyghur labour exposes shareholder risk Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, four takeaways on the global state of carbon pricing

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  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell plant reported millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits

    Subsidy scheme in Alberta allowed oil major’s plant to register carbon credits equivalent to twice the volume of CO₂ captured

    The Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Airlines
    European carbon trading catching less than quarter of airline emissions, data finds

    With long-haul flights exempt from charges and carriers given free allowances, large share of flights not covered by system

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  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Moral Money
    Germany takes a page from US playbook with new climate subsidy Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, a new AI application focused on assessing climate risks

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  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
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    Survival of the fittest for health tech Premium content

    With the pandemic boom over, consumer medical start-ups now face fickle customers and a crowded market place

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  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    How trade can save the planet, one tedious spreadsheet at a time

    The EU’s carbon tariffs to combat climate change are snarled in complex bureaucracy

  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Moral Money
    Carbon markets: not for the faint-hearted Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the World Bank’s new plan to de-risk private sector investment

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  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Lex
    Europe’s carbon price crash looks like serious market myopia Premium content

    The emissions trading system is too clunky to deliver the required impetus to decarbonisation

    The Oersted gas-fired power station in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    UK carbon price falls to record low

    Analysts fear inexpensive cost of polluting will deter investment in renewable energy

    Emissions being released by chimneys at a steel plant operated by Tata Steel
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Moral Money
    What the drive for cleaner capitalism will look like in 2024 Premium content

    A crucial year for supply chain disclosures and carbon pricing schemes, while anti-ESG backlash evolves

    Emissions rise from the smokestacks at a coal power plant
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Brazil
    Brazil to launch regulated carbon market

    Activists worry that a carve-out for agriculture will limit the scheme’s environmental value

    A wheat plantation on former rainforest in Pará state, Brazil
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    UK trade
    UK to introduce carbon levy on imports by 2027

    Industry criticises ministers for implementing scheme on a slower timetable than EU

    A woman working at clay roof tiles factory
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Carbon price tumbles as investors fret over ‘weak’ impact of COP28 deal

    EU futures contracts drop below €66 per tonne in London after traders left unconvinced by wording of agreement

    Climate activists outside the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Tuesday
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    EU and US at loggerheads over plans to launch new carbon credit market

    Dispute centred on measures Brussels saw as watering down UN’s proposed standards for trading system

    illustration of carbin credit market showing graphics above a laptop
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    LexCarbon tax
    Internal carbon costs: the dark arts of pricing emissions Premium content

    Ministers waffling at COP summits would do better to create a cross-border trading scheme to provide those magic numbers

    A man works surrounded by smog from factories in Karachi
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The flawed carbon credit trade needs fixing

    A more rigorous market would be a boon for developing countries — and the climate

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