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  • Set climate targets, power sector told by investors with $11trn in assets

    20 December 2018

    Twelve of Europe’s highest-emitting power companies have been instructed to set out Paris-aligned transition plans by a group of investors with $11.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), as they warn of the ‘potentially catastrophic’ effects of climate change.

  • EU carbon update, 16 July 2018

    16 July 2018

    There is no compelling fundamental reason for the EUA price to move significantly in either direction, but technical analysis continues to favour further gains, says Louis Redshaw.

  • EU carbon update, 25 June 2018

    25 June 2018

    High auction volumes are likely to limit further gains in the price of EU Allowances this week, says Louis Redshaw.

  • Members of EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance announced

    13 June 2018

    The European Commission has announced the members of its Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.

  • EU ETS reforms win parliamentary approval

    07 February 2018

    The European Parliament has voted by a large majority to formally approve the provisional agreement reached in November on post-2020 reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

  • Council agrees to strengthen EU ETS

    01 March 2017

    The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has taken a step closer to adopting reforms that could see prices triple, according to one analyst.

  • Multi-national corporates call for UN talks to facilitate carbon markets

    19 October 2015

    A group of 14 leading industrial companies have called on negotiators at the UN climate change talks in Paris in December to deliver an agreement that facilitates international carbon markets.

  • Electricity companies call on UN to promote carbon trading

    16 September 2015

    Negotiators in the forthcoming UN climate change meeting in Paris (COP 21) are being urged by power companies to encourage the use of carbon trading in the international action plan they are working towards.

  • EU energy, climate change plans get mixed reception

    26 February 2015

    Industry and NGOs have given a mixed reception to the European Commission's new proposals to improve energy security and reduce carbon emissions within the EU.

  • Business welcomes EU 2030 emissions goal, but not renewables target

    28 October 2014

    Industry and investors have broadly welcomed the EU's new climate and energy policy framework for 2030.