Cap & Trade

Washington State Just Began Capping Carbon Emissions. Here’s How It Works. 0123.rtf
New York Adopts Cap and Trade as a Pillar of Climate Action 1222.rtf
World’s 1st Carbon Border Tax Lands in Europe 1222.rtf
Why China’s New Carbon Market Is No Quick Climate Fix 0121.rtf
Carbon Trading in China Isn't Helping Tackle Climate Change 1222.rtf
China Delays Carbon Market Expansion on Data Problems 0522.rtf - CO2 price is now about $8.55 per tonne.
China’s Weak Carbon Market Hits a New Roadblock -- Data Fraud 0422.rtf
China's Carbon Market May Get Stricter Under a New Proposal 0122.rtf - $9 to 10.25 / ton of CO2
Gov. Youngkin Aims to Remove Virginia from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative 0122.rtf
Europe’s CO2 Price Has Almost Tripled in 2021 - 1221.rtf - 1221 - €80 / ton
Energy Crunch Drives Carbon Prices to Record as Europe Burns Coal 1121.rtf - €71.21 per metric ton
CoP26 Finally Set Rules on Carbon Markets. What Does It Mean? 1121.rtf
Carbon Pricing, if Missing the 100% Dividend, Will Boost Inequality 1121.rtf
China to Quickly Expand Top Carbon Market to Add More Polluters 0721.rtf - E.U. plans to raise the price to at least $71 per ton of CO2.
Nuts, Bolts & Pitfalls of Carbon Pricing c- Equity-Based Primer on Paying to Pollute 0721.rtf - for NAACP
Washington State Finally Passes a Cap on Carbon Emissions 0421.rtf
A Climate “Solution” Actually Adds Millions of Tons of CO2 to the Atmosphere 0421.rtf
Huge Forest Accounting Problem Could Hamper World’s Push to Cut Emissions 041.rtf
EU Price on CO2 Pollution Hits Record High in Early 2021 - 0121.rtf
Why ‘Carbon Offsets’ Don’t Do All That They Promise 0820.rtf
China to Delay National Carbon Market Debut to 2021 - 1120.rtf
FERC Takes ‘Landmark Action' on Carbon Pricing 1020.rtf
World's Largest Carbon Market Faces Revamp under Draft EU Plan 0920.rtf - target for cut by 2030 (from 1990) raised from 40% to 55%.  Cap to drop faster than old 2.2% a year.  Power plants and factories already covered.  Add flights within Europe.
Trump Can’t Weaken California’s Carbon Market, Federal Judge Rules 0720.rtf
China Power Giants Prepare for World’s Biggest Carbon Market 0620.rtf
Merkel Cabinet Seals Plan to Widen CO2 Price to Heating, Roads 0520.rtf
Pennsylvania Is Joining a Multi-State Effort to Price Carbon Emissions 1019.rtf
Northeast States Take 1st Step in Effort to Reduce Transportation Emissions 1019.rtf
Quebec Adds $215 Million to Coffers from Carbon Market Envied by Europe 0219.rtf
How Ontario's Proposed Carbon Price Is Not a Carbon Tax (Probably, Maybe) 0219.rtf
After Topping EU Commodity Gains in 2018, Carbon Prices Set to Surge Again 1218.rtf
State Cap-and-Trade Systems Offer Evidence that Carbon Pricing Can Work 1118.rtf
EU Carbon Price Triples, Finally Puts Pressure on Coal 0818.rtf
Massachusetts Senate Votes to Put a Price on Carbon, with National Grid Support 0618.rtf - It goes to House now.  It punts choice of tax or cap & trade to Governor.  Tool to meet -40% (1990 base) by 2030 and 80% by 2050.  Starts for transport, business, and residential in consecutive years.  State’s largest utility strongly supports it, plans electrification of transport and home heating (heat pumps), continued decarbonization of electricity, etc.
    Later: Provision did not make it out of conference committee.
Will China's Participation Invigorate Cap-and-Trade Schemes Elsewhere? 0518.rtf
Checking the Math on California’s Cap and Trade - Is It Adding Up? 0518.rtf
Europe's $38 Billion Carbon Market Is Finally Doing Its Job 0318.rtf
Guide to the World’s Largest Carbon Market that Just Launched in China 1217.rtf
Gov. Jerry Brown and EU Leaders Agree to Work to Combat Climate Change 1117.rtf
California Pollution Permits Sell at Highest Price Ever 0817.rtf
Xi Jinping Is Set for a Big Gamble With China’s Carbon Trading Market 0617.rtf
How Countries Cut Carbon by Putting a Price on It 0417.rtf
Ontario's 1st Cap-and-Trade Auction Sells Out Current Allowances 0417.rtf
Ethiopia Plans Carbon Trading, as It Gears Up to Be Carbon Neutral by 2025 - 0317.rtf
Reform of EU Carbon Trading Scheme Agreed 0217.rtf
Cap & Trade to Cost Ontario $8 Billion in 1st Years, with Minimal CO2 Reductions 1116.rtf
California Ponders Expanding Cap and Trade to Brazil 0516.rtf
China Aims to Boost Renewable Energy with 'Green Certificates' 0316.rtf
Washington Puts Gov. Inslee's Carbon Rules on Hold 0216.rtf
In the Heart of Coal Country, Calls for Carbon Trading 0116.rtf
Obama's Climate Change Rule Stays Alive in Courts, for Now 0116.rtf
Rice Growers on the Front Lines of U.S. Carbon Markets 0116.rtf
Carbon Trading Finds a Foothold in at Least 20 States 0116.rtf
Drivers May Pay for Next Step in Fight against Climate Change 0116.rtf
Governments to Raise $22 Billion from Carbon Pricing in 2015 - 1015.rtf
Climate Change Deal Will Not Include Global Carbon Price 1015.rtf
ITF Calls for Global Rules for Ship Operators to Cut Emissions 1015.rtf
With Market on Their Side, Electric Utilities Skip Fight Against Carbon Rule 1015.rtf
Will China's Carbon-Trading Plan Help Curb Climate Change? 0915.rtf
What Can China Achieve with Cap and Trade? 0915.rtf
China to Launch National Cap-and-Trade Plan in 2017 - 0915.rtf
$2.2 Billion from CA Cap & Trade Begins Flowing, to Rail, Housing, Clean Cars, etc. 0815.rtf
Obama Just Created a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program 0815.rtf
Coal Renaissance Means Switching to Plan B - Carbon Pricing and CO2 Removal 0715.rtf
Carbon Caps Help Northeast Economy 0715.rtf
China's Guangdong to Allocate 408 Million CO2 Permits This Year 0715.rtf
China Prepares to Launch National Carbon Market to Fight Climate Change 0515.rtf
EU Diplomats Approve Proposal to Start CO2 Market Reform in 2019 - 0515.rtf
Ontario Sees Carbon Caps System as Best Way to Cut Emissions 0415.rtf
EU Carbon Permit Prices Rise, as Nations Agree to Seek 2021 Start to Fix 0315.rtf
European Carbon Market Reform Set for 2019 - 0215.rtf
San Joaquin Valley Growers Seek Credit for Sequestering Carbon in Soils 0215.rtf
As China Readies National Carbon Trading Program Launch, Questions Multiply 0215.rtf
California Manufacturers to Pay More Under Toughest Carbon Curbs 0215.rtf
EU Politicians Seek to Revive Sluggish Carbon Market 0115.rtf
Warm Weather Sinking EU Emissions-Market Plans 0115.rtf
California Motorists to Begin Shouldering Costs of Carbon Auction 1114.rtf
Carbon Trading Edges Closer, as UN Brokers Deal 1014.rtf
Gaming Carbon Market Must End to Solve Global Warming 1014.rtf
Why the World Needs to Put a Better Price on the Rainforest 1014.rtf
Other Nations to Link to China’s Planned Carbon Market 0914.rtf
China Suggests Coal Use Cap and Import Curbs in Draft Air Pollution Law 0914.rtf
Analysis - China's Big Carbon Market Experiment 0914.rtf
China Seeks Pollution Cut With National Carbon Market 0914.rtf
After US Pledges Cuts, China Announces Plans to Cap Carbon Emissions in 2016 - 0614.rtf
China's Ambitious Cap-and-Trade Plan Rolls Down a Long, Bumpy Runway 0514.rtf
Carbon Trading in China- Short-Term Experience, Long-Term Wisdom 0414.rtf
April Brings Californians Electricity 'Climate Credit' 0314.rtf
Australia’s Pollution Plan Starts to Look Like Trading 1213.rtf
U.N. Carbon Offset Market to Be 'in a Coma' for Years 1113.rtf
EU Carbon Price Declines as Poland’s Auction Debut Set to Boost Supply 0913.rtf
Beijing Carbon Trading Starts as China Acts on Climate 1113.rtf
California Air Rules Allow Business to Pay Someone Else to Slash Emissions 0813.rtf
China Starts Testing Cap-and-Trade 0613.rtf
Chinese Official Says Carbon Caps Are Real Possibility 0811.rtf
EU Market Carbon Emissions Fell 0413.rtf
California's 2nd Carbon Auction Price Up 0213.rtf
RGGI Cuts GHG Cap Steeply 0213.rtf
California Starts Cap & Trade 1112.rtf
Cap & Trade Failure Helped Cut US Emissions 1012.rtf
Climate Bill Would Save $19B 0710.rtf
Senate Climate Bill Has No Major Surprises 0510.rtf
Climate Bill Impact on Agriculture Gets Clearer 1209.rtf
US Senate Climate Bill Hearings 1009.rtf
Waxman-Markey Climate Bill Passes House 0709.rtf
How Climate Bill Can Get 60 Votes 0709.rtf
Summary of Waxman-Markey Bill 0709.rtf
House Draft Climate Change Bill 0409.rtf
Obama on Carbon Cap 0309.rtf
USCAP Blueprint for GHG Law 0109.rtf
Chances Dim for GHG Law 0508.rtf
Markey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill Summary 0409.pdf
Kerry_Graham_Liebeman_Framework 1209.pdf - 5 page letter from the 3 Senators
Markey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill 0409.pdf
Discussion Draft Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill 1009.pdf

Deforestation Inc. - How 'Green' Firms Prevent Climate Action 0323.rtf

Finance Is Failing the World’s Best Defense against Climate Change 0223.rtf

A $39 Trillion Investor Alliance Gives Warning on Carbon Offsets 0223.rtf

Investor Group Bans Carbon Removal from CO2 Reduction Plans 0123.rtf

Africa Has a Major New Carbon Market Initiative 0123.rtf

More than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider Are Worthless 0123.rtf

Capturing Carbon with Giant Algae Ponds in the Middle of the Desert 1122.rtf

Selling a Cleaner, Affordable Cooking Fuel, Ethanol, for Kenyan Homes 1122.rtf

Multi-Million $ Forest Regeneration Carbon Credits Yielded Fewer Trees 1122.rtf

Why the $100 per Ton Target for Carbon Removal May Be ‘Pure Fantasy' 1022.rtf

Airlines Are Misleading Flyers with Carbon-Neutral Claims 1022.rtf

Wildfires Are Destroying California's Forest Carbon Credit Reserves 0822.rtf

Cleaning Up Airline Travel Is Going to Be Really Expensive 0622.rtf

Let’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution 0622.rtf

In an Increasingly Warmer World, Trees Are Not a Climate Change Cure-All 0522.rtf

Companies Can Soon Start Paying the Bahamas to Store Carbon in the Ocean 0522.rtf

Qantas Places Burden of Cleaning Up Aviation on Sustainable Fuel 0322.rtf

Should You Buy Carbon Offsets for Your Air Travel? 0122.rtf

CoP26 Finally Set Rules on Carbon Markets. What Does It Mean? 1121.rtf

We Need a Bigger Planet to Fix the Climate with Trees 1121.rtf

Net Zero Commitments from Companies in Hard-to-Fix Sectors 1021.rtf

Will Russia’s Forests Be an Asset or an Obstacle in Climate Fight? 0721.rtf

Planting Trees “Doesn't Make Any Sense" in Fight against Climate Change 0721.rtf

Only 4-5% of Corn Belt Farmers Are Planting Crops to Store Carbon 0621.rtf

5 Things to Know about the Global Race to Net Zero 0621.rtf

The Fastest Ways Aviation Could Cut Emissions 0521.rtf

One of Canada’s Biggest Carbon Sinks Is Circling the Drain 0521.rtf

Shipping Now Faces the Highest Price on Carbon for Any Global Industry 0521.rtf

A Climate “Solution” Actually Adds Millions of Tons of CO2 to the Atmosphere 0421.rtf - semi-phantom forest offsets in California: use average tree carbon / sq meter nin a zone, buy land that’s above average and take credit for the difference,.
Huge Forest Accounting Problem Could Hamper World’s Push to Cut Emissions 0421.rtf - Who gets credit for a forest preserved as an offset?  Buyer, seller, both or neither?  Many nations use different rules from independent evaluators.  Large-emitting nations with large forests wind up with phantom benefits unless rules are changed.

Delta to Spend $30 Million to Offset Most of Its 2020 Impact on Climate 0321.rtf

Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases from the Air 0121.rtf

United Airlines Turns to CO2 Removal Technology to Offset Emissions 1220.rtf

Why ‘Carbon Offsets’ Don’t Do All That They Promise 0820.rtf - permanence, reality, additionality

Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype? 0920.rtf

Is Carbon Farming a Climate Boon or Boondoggle? 0620.rtf

Is Carbon Sequestration on Farms Actually Working to Fight Climate Change? 0420.rtf

Spanish Oil & Gas Company Vows to Become a Net-Zero Carbon Emitter 1219.rtf

If Carbon Offsets Require Forests to Stay Standing, What Happens When the Amazon Is on Fire? 0819.rtf

Stripe Inc. Says Offsets Aren’t Enough; It’s Time to Pay for Negative Emissions 0819.rtf

Scientists Zero in on Trees as a Surprisingly Large Source of Methane 0619.rtf

Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation may Be Worse than Nothing 0519.rtf

Lyft - “We are now a fully carbon-neutral company.” 0918.rtf