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  • Carbon market sentiment strengthens

    23 May 2018

    Sentiment about carbon prices is becoming increasingly bullish, but "a huge gap remains between current price expectations and what's needed to achieve the 2°C goal" set by the Paris climate agreement.

  • 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).

  • "Non-breakthrough" COP23 to make progress on Paris rulebook

    03 November 2017

    The main achievement expected at the Bonn climate conference starting on Monday is progress on preparing a 'rulebook' that will lay out how to implement the Paris Agreement.

  • Investors and industry hail extension of California carbon market

    19 July 2017

    A bipartisan vote to extend California's cap-and-trade carbon market to 2030 has been welcomed by a range of investors and industries.

  • Populism threatens action on climate change, warns Ieta

    24 May 2017

    The rise of populist political movements around the world "are a threat to action on climate change," according to the International Emissions Trading Association (Ieta).

  • California carbon price jumps following judgment

    10 April 2017

    The price of carbon in California shot up 4% in a day following the state's Court of Appeal judgment that the floor price of the cap-and-trade programme auctions did not constitute a tax.

  • 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.

  • MEPs support for EU ETS could treble carbon price

    15 February 2017

    Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have agreed to strengthen the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in a move which one analyst said has the potential to triple allowance price forecasts for 2020.

  • IETA welcomes approval of Environment Committee's EU ETS amendments

    15 December 2016

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has welcomed the European Parliament's Environment Committee's approval of amendments to the proposed revision of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as set out by the European Commission last year.

  • IETA calls for swift agreement on EU ETS

    12 December 2016

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has called on the European Parliament's environment committee to quickly come to an agreement on proposed amendments to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), after the initial 8 December deadline was missed.