Archive

  • COP Blog: Crunch time for markets

    09 December 2015

    The next few days will decide to what extent the Paris agreement encourages trading markets, says Jeff Swartz

  • Paris 'can provide toolkit to allow carbon markets to link'

    20 November 2015

    The Paris climate summit will not realistically set up a global carbon market, but could provide a toolbox to help link regional trading systems.

  • Getting serious with carbon pricing policy

    19 November 2015

    David Hone and Jonathan Grant explore the outlook for carbon pricing in Paris – and beyond

  • EF BRIEFS: Downing, Lekela, Recurrent Energy, Enbridge, Climate Bonds Initiative, GRI, Global CCS Institute, IETA

    06 November 2015

    London-based investment firm Downing will invest £20 million ($30 million) in biomass projects as part of a joint venture with developer Strand Energy.

  • 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.

  • Can Paris deliver a meaningful climate deal?

    07 October 2015

    Attempts to build a global agreement from a series of national pledges will help industry and financiers plan low-carbon investments beyond 2020, even if they don't restrict global warming to 2°C, says Graham Cooper

  • 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.

  • US carbon prices buoyant as more states eye trading

    26 August 2015

    Prices of emission allowances in North America's mandatory carbon markets have been rising this year, amid speculation that more states may join them or set up linked trading regimes.

  • "Lack of clarity" on carbon markets in draft UN text worries industry

    27 July 2015

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a non-profit representing more than 150 companies, has expressed concern over the negotiating text prepared for the UN's climate change meeting in Paris in December.

  • Alberta extends carbon reduction initiative in boost for low-carbon investment

    26 June 2015

    Alberta has extended its carbon reduction programme until 2017, in a move hailed as "the signal that businesses and investors in [the province] have been needing".