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China Plans Biggest Changes Yet to Lift Carbon Market Impact 0424.rtf
For Chinese yuan to US $, divide by 7.1. Scale is US $6.90 to $13.20 per tonne of CO2.
Articles
Articles
European Parliament Backs Diluted 2040 Climate Targets 1125.rtf
EU Parliament Panel Set to Back 2040 Emissions-Cut Target of 90% 1125.rtf
EU Lawmakers Plan to Push for Longer Delay of Broader Carbon Market 1125.rtf
EU Floats Measures to Restrict Prices in New Carbon Market 1025.rtf
China Plans Tougher Industry Rules In World’s Largest Carbon Market 0825.rtfChina ‘Will Cap’ Carbon Market Emissions by 2030 - 0625.rtfEU Nations Seek New Carbon Market Changes to Prevent High Prices 0625.rtfCalifornia Will Try to Extend Cap-and-Trade, despite Trump’s Threats 0425.rtfItaly and France Call for Changes to Europe’s Carbon Border Levy 0325.rtfThailand to Launch New Carbon Credits Market to Boost Trading 0125.rtfEU Agrees on Carbon Tariff Rules to Tackle Climate Change 1224.rtfKorea to Impose Stricter Emissions Trading Rules to Boost Prices 0924.rtfChina Plans Biggest Changes Yet to Lift Carbon Market Impact 0424.rtfEurope’s War on Carbon Goes Global as Border Tax Comes Into Play 1023.rtfEuropean Law Might Get Companies around the World to Cut Climate Pollution 0523.rtf - border adjustment, for industrial goods subject to little or no carbon price at home.Click for moreWashington State Just Began Capping Carbon Emissions. Here’s How It Works. 0123.rtfNew York Adopts Cap and Trade as a Pillar of Climate Action 1222.rtfWorld’s 1st Carbon Border Tax Lands in Europe 1222.rtfWhy China’s New Carbon Market Is No Quick Climate Fix 0121.rtfCarbon Trading in China Isn't Helping Tackle Climate Change 1222.rtfChina 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.rtfChina's Carbon Market May Get Stricter Under a New Proposal 0122.rtf - $9 to 10.25 / ton of CO2Gov. Youngkin Aims to Remove Virginia from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative 0122.rtfEurope’s CO2 Price Has Almost Tripled in 2021 - 1221.rtf - 1221 - €80 / tonEnergy Crunch Drives Carbon Prices to Record as Europe Burns Coal 1121.rtf - €71.21 per metric tonCoP26 Finally Set Rules on Carbon Markets. What Does It Mean? 1121.rtfCarbon Pricing, if Missing the 100% Dividend, Will Boost Inequality 1121.rtfChina 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 NAACPWashington State Finally Passes a Cap on Carbon Emissions 0421.rtfA Climate “Solution” Actually Adds Millions of Tons of CO2 to the Atmosphere 0421.rtfHuge Forest Accounting Problem Could Hamper World’s Push to Cut Emissions 041.rtfEU Price on CO2 Pollution Hits Record High in Early 2021 - 0121.rtfWhy ‘Carbon Offsets’ Don’t Do All That They Promise 0820.rtfChina to Delay National Carbon Market Debut to 2021 - 1120.rtfFERC Takes ‘Landmark Action' on Carbon Pricing 1020.rtfWorld'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.rtfChina Power Giants Prepare for World’s Biggest Carbon Market 0620.rtfMerkel Cabinet Seals Plan to Widen CO2 Price to Heating, Roads 0520.rtfPennsylvania Is Joining a Multi-State Effort to Price Carbon Emissions 1019.rtfNortheast States Take 1st Step in Effort to Reduce Transportation Emissions 1019.rtfQuebec Adds $215 Million to Coffers from Carbon Market Envied by Europe 0219.rtfHow Ontario's Proposed Carbon Price Is Not a Carbon Tax (Probably, Maybe) 0219.rtfAfter Topping EU Commodity Gains in 2018, Carbon Prices Set to Surge Again 1218.rtfState Cap-and-Trade Systems Offer Evidence that Carbon Pricing Can Work 1118.rtfEU Carbon Price Triples, Finally Puts Pressure on Coal 0818.rtfMassachusetts 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.rtfChecking the Math on California’s Cap and Trade - Is It Adding Up? 0518.rtfEurope's $38 Billion Carbon Market Is Finally Doing Its Job 0318.rtfGuide to the World’s Largest Carbon Market that Just Launched in China 1217.rtfGov. Jerry Brown and EU Leaders Agree to Work to Combat Climate Change 1117.rtfCalifornia Pollution Permits Sell at Highest Price Ever 0817.rtfXi Jinping Is Set for a Big Gamble With China’s Carbon Trading Market 0617.rtfHow Countries Cut Carbon by Putting a Price on It 0417.rtfOntario's 1st Cap-and-Trade Auction Sells Out Current Allowances 0417.rtfEthiopia Plans Carbon Trading, as It Gears Up to Be Carbon Neutral by 2025 - 0317.rtfReform of EU Carbon Trading Scheme Agreed 0217.rtfCap & Trade to Cost Ontario $8 Billion in 1st Years, with Minimal CO2 Reductions 1116.rtfCalifornia Ponders Expanding Cap and Trade to Brazil 0516.rtfChina Aims to Boost Renewable Energy with 'Green Certificates' 0316.rtfWashington Puts Gov. Inslee's Carbon Rules on Hold 0216.rtfIn the Heart of Coal Country, Calls for Carbon Trading 0116.rtfObama's Climate Change Rule Stays Alive in Courts, for Now 0116.rtfRice Growers on the Front Lines of U.S. Carbon Markets 0116.rtfCarbon Trading Finds a Foothold in at Least 20 States 0116.rtfDrivers May Pay for Next Step in Fight against Climate Change 0116.rtfGovernments to Raise $22 Billion from Carbon Pricing in 2015 - 1015.rtfClimate Change Deal Will Not Include Global Carbon Price 1015.rtfITF Calls for Global Rules for Ship Operators to Cut Emissions 1015.rtfWith Market on Their Side, Electric Utilities Skip Fight Against Carbon Rule 1015.rtfWill China's Carbon-Trading Plan Help Curb Climate Change? 0915.rtfWhat Can China Achieve with Cap and Trade? 0915.rtfChina 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.rtfObama Just Created a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program 0815.rtfCoal Renaissance Means Switching to Plan B - Carbon Pricing and CO2 Removal 0715.rtfCarbon Caps Help Northeast Economy 0715.rtfChina's Guangdong to Allocate 408 Million CO2 Permits This Year 0715.rtfChina Prepares to Launch National Carbon Market to Fight Climate Change 0515.rtfEU Diplomats Approve Proposal to Start CO2 Market Reform in 2019 - 0515.rtfOntario Sees Carbon Caps System as Best Way to Cut Emissions 0415.rtfEU Carbon Permit Prices Rise, as Nations Agree to Seek 2021 Start to Fix 0315.rtfEuropean Carbon Market Reform Set for 2019 - 0215.rtfSan Joaquin Valley Growers Seek Credit for Sequestering Carbon in Soils 0215.rtfAs China Readies National Carbon Trading Program Launch, Questions Multiply 0215.rtfCalifornia Manufacturers to Pay More Under Toughest Carbon Curbs 0215.rtfEU Politicians Seek to Revive Sluggish Carbon Market 0115.rtfWarm Weather Sinking EU Emissions-Market Plans 0115.rtfCalifornia Motorists to Begin Shouldering Costs of Carbon Auction 1114.rtfCarbon Trading Edges Closer, as UN Brokers Deal 1014.rtfGaming Carbon Market Must End to Solve Global Warming 1014.rtfWhy the World Needs to Put a Better Price on the Rainforest 1014.rtfOther Nations to Link to China’s Planned Carbon Market 0914.rtfChina Suggests Coal Use Cap and Import Curbs in Draft Air Pollution Law 0914.rtfAnalysis - China's Big Carbon Market Experiment 0914.rtfChina Seeks Pollution Cut With National Carbon Market 0914.rtfAfter US Pledges Cuts, China Announces Plans to Cap Carbon Emissions in 2016 - 0614.rtfChina's Ambitious Cap-and-Trade Plan Rolls Down a Long, Bumpy Runway 0514.rtfCarbon Trading in China- Short-Term Experience, Long-Term Wisdom 0414.rtfApril Brings Californians Electricity 'Climate Credit' 0314.rtfAustralia’s Pollution Plan Starts to Look Like Trading 1213.rtfU.N. Carbon Offset Market to Be 'in a Coma' for Years 1113.rtfEU Carbon Price Declines as Poland’s Auction Debut Set to Boost Supply 0913.rtfBeijing Carbon Trading Starts as China Acts on Climate 1113.rtfCalifornia Air Rules Allow Business to Pay Someone Else to Slash Emissions 0813.rtfChina Starts Testing Cap-and-Trade 0613.rtfChinese Official Says Carbon Caps Are Real Possibility 0811.rtfEU Market Carbon Emissions Fell 0413.rtfCalifornia's 2nd Carbon Auction Price Up 0213.rtfRGGI Cuts GHG Cap Steeply 0213.rtfCalifornia Starts Cap & Trade 1112.rtfCap & Trade Failure Helped Cut US Emissions 1012.rtfClimate Bill Would Save $19B 0710.rtfSenate Climate Bill Has No Major Surprises 0510.rtfClimate Bill Impact on Agriculture Gets Clearer 1209.rtfUS Senate Climate Bill Hearings 1009.rtfWaxman-Markey Climate Bill Passes House 0709.rtfHow Climate Bill Can Get 60 Votes 0709.rtfSummary of Waxman-Markey Bill 0709.rtfHouse Draft Climate Change Bill 0409.rtfObama on Carbon Cap 0309.rtfUSCAP Blueprint for GHG Law 0109.rtfChances Dim for GHG Law 0508.rtfMarkey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill Summary 0409.pdfKerry_Graham_Liebeman_Framework 1209.pdf - 5 page letter from the 3 SenatorsMarkey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill 0409.pdfDiscussion Draft Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill 1009.pdf
Later: Provision did not make it out of conference committee.Will China's Participation Invigorate Cap-and-Trade Schemes Elsewhere? 0518.rtfChecking the Math on California’s Cap and Trade - Is It Adding Up? 0518.rtfEurope's $38 Billion Carbon Market Is Finally Doing Its Job 0318.rtfGuide to the World’s Largest Carbon Market that Just Launched in China 1217.rtfGov. Jerry Brown and EU Leaders Agree to Work to Combat Climate Change 1117.rtfCalifornia Pollution Permits Sell at Highest Price Ever 0817.rtfXi Jinping Is Set for a Big Gamble With China’s Carbon Trading Market 0617.rtfHow Countries Cut Carbon by Putting a Price on It 0417.rtfOntario's 1st Cap-and-Trade Auction Sells Out Current Allowances 0417.rtfEthiopia Plans Carbon Trading, as It Gears Up to Be Carbon Neutral by 2025 - 0317.rtfReform of EU Carbon Trading Scheme Agreed 0217.rtfCap & Trade to Cost Ontario $8 Billion in 1st Years, with Minimal CO2 Reductions 1116.rtfCalifornia Ponders Expanding Cap and Trade to Brazil 0516.rtfChina Aims to Boost Renewable Energy with 'Green Certificates' 0316.rtfWashington Puts Gov. Inslee's Carbon Rules on Hold 0216.rtfIn the Heart of Coal Country, Calls for Carbon Trading 0116.rtfObama's Climate Change Rule Stays Alive in Courts, for Now 0116.rtfRice Growers on the Front Lines of U.S. Carbon Markets 0116.rtfCarbon Trading Finds a Foothold in at Least 20 States 0116.rtfDrivers May Pay for Next Step in Fight against Climate Change 0116.rtfGovernments to Raise $22 Billion from Carbon Pricing in 2015 - 1015.rtfClimate Change Deal Will Not Include Global Carbon Price 1015.rtfITF Calls for Global Rules for Ship Operators to Cut Emissions 1015.rtfWith Market on Their Side, Electric Utilities Skip Fight Against Carbon Rule 1015.rtfWill China's Carbon-Trading Plan Help Curb Climate Change? 0915.rtfWhat Can China Achieve with Cap and Trade? 0915.rtfChina 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.rtfObama Just Created a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program 0815.rtfCoal Renaissance Means Switching to Plan B - Carbon Pricing and CO2 Removal 0715.rtfCarbon Caps Help Northeast Economy 0715.rtfChina's Guangdong to Allocate 408 Million CO2 Permits This Year 0715.rtfChina Prepares to Launch National Carbon Market to Fight Climate Change 0515.rtfEU Diplomats Approve Proposal to Start CO2 Market Reform in 2019 - 0515.rtfOntario Sees Carbon Caps System as Best Way to Cut Emissions 0415.rtfEU Carbon Permit Prices Rise, as Nations Agree to Seek 2021 Start to Fix 0315.rtfEuropean Carbon Market Reform Set for 2019 - 0215.rtfSan Joaquin Valley Growers Seek Credit for Sequestering Carbon in Soils 0215.rtfAs China Readies National Carbon Trading Program Launch, Questions Multiply 0215.rtfCalifornia Manufacturers to Pay More Under Toughest Carbon Curbs 0215.rtfEU Politicians Seek to Revive Sluggish Carbon Market 0115.rtfWarm Weather Sinking EU Emissions-Market Plans 0115.rtfCalifornia Motorists to Begin Shouldering Costs of Carbon Auction 1114.rtfCarbon Trading Edges Closer, as UN Brokers Deal 1014.rtfGaming Carbon Market Must End to Solve Global Warming 1014.rtfWhy the World Needs to Put a Better Price on the Rainforest 1014.rtfOther Nations to Link to China’s Planned Carbon Market 0914.rtfChina Suggests Coal Use Cap and Import Curbs in Draft Air Pollution Law 0914.rtfAnalysis - China's Big Carbon Market Experiment 0914.rtfChina Seeks Pollution Cut With National Carbon Market 0914.rtfAfter US Pledges Cuts, China Announces Plans to Cap Carbon Emissions in 2016 - 0614.rtfChina's Ambitious Cap-and-Trade Plan Rolls Down a Long, Bumpy Runway 0514.rtfCarbon Trading in China- Short-Term Experience, Long-Term Wisdom 0414.rtfApril Brings Californians Electricity 'Climate Credit' 0314.rtfAustralia’s Pollution Plan Starts to Look Like Trading 1213.rtfU.N. Carbon Offset Market to Be 'in a Coma' for Years 1113.rtfEU Carbon Price Declines as Poland’s Auction Debut Set to Boost Supply 0913.rtfBeijing Carbon Trading Starts as China Acts on Climate 1113.rtfCalifornia Air Rules Allow Business to Pay Someone Else to Slash Emissions 0813.rtfChina Starts Testing Cap-and-Trade 0613.rtfChinese Official Says Carbon Caps Are Real Possibility 0811.rtfEU Market Carbon Emissions Fell 0413.rtfCalifornia's 2nd Carbon Auction Price Up 0213.rtfRGGI Cuts GHG Cap Steeply 0213.rtfCalifornia Starts Cap & Trade 1112.rtfCap & Trade Failure Helped Cut US Emissions 1012.rtfClimate Bill Would Save $19B 0710.rtfSenate Climate Bill Has No Major Surprises 0510.rtfClimate Bill Impact on Agriculture Gets Clearer 1209.rtfUS Senate Climate Bill Hearings 1009.rtfWaxman-Markey Climate Bill Passes House 0709.rtfHow Climate Bill Can Get 60 Votes 0709.rtfSummary of Waxman-Markey Bill 0709.rtfHouse Draft Climate Change Bill 0409.rtfObama on Carbon Cap 0309.rtfUSCAP Blueprint for GHG Law 0109.rtfChances Dim for GHG Law 0508.rtfMarkey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill Summary 0409.pdfKerry_Graham_Liebeman_Framework 1209.pdf - 5 page letter from the 3 SenatorsMarkey-Waxman 2009 GHG Bill 0409.pdfDiscussion Draft Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill 1009.pdf
Europe’s recent ETS prices, in euros (€) for CO2 permits.
Cap was cut in 2021. Russia cut back deliveries in early 2022
The China carbon trading graph is by Lucas Bifera of Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, April 9, 2014.
www.c2es.org/blog/biferal/carbon-trading-china-short-term-experience-long-term-wisdom
A price graph, in €/Tonne of CO2, not of carbon. Note that prices depend heavily on how high (in tons) the cap is set. With a flat cap and declining emissions, allowance prices fall, even plunge.
Discussion Draft Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill 1009.pdf - 801 pp
Note that actual US fossil-fuel emissions have fallen 20% since 2007, approximating the orange line.
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Articles
Thailand to Launch New Carbon Credits Market to Boost Trading 0125.rtfWill a Carbon Market Happen? 0524.rtfCan Forests Be More Profitable than Beef? 0524.rtfTree Plantations Try to Offset Our Carbon Pollution. Here’s the Problem. 1023.rtfCanada’s Explosive Wildfires Have Damaged a Forest Carbon Offset Project 0623.rtfAncient Amazon Charcoal Seen as Next Big Thing in Carbon Markets 0623.rtfChevron’s Carbon Offsets Are Mostly Junk and Some May Harm 0523.rtfClick for moreArticles
Deforestation Inc. - How 'Green' Firms Prevent Climate Action 0323.rtfFinance Is Failing the World’s Best Defense against Climate Change 0223.rtfA $39 Trillion Investor Alliance Gives Warning on Carbon Offsets 0223.rtfInvestor Group Bans Carbon Removal from CO2 Reduction Plans 0123.rtfAfrica Has a Major New Carbon Market Initiative 0123.rtfMore than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider Are Worthless 0123.rtfCapturing Carbon with Giant Algae Ponds in the Middle of the Desert 1122.rtfSelling a Cleaner, Affordable Cooking Fuel, Ethanol, for Kenyan Homes 1122.rtfMulti-Million $ Forest Regeneration Carbon Credits Yielded Fewer Trees 1122.rtfWhy the $100 per Ton Target for Carbon Removal May Be ‘Pure Fantasy' 1022.rtfAirlines Are Misleading Flyers with Carbon-Neutral Claims 1022.rtfWildfires Are Destroying California's Forest Carbon Credit Reserves 0822.rtfCleaning Up Airline Travel Is Going to Be Really Expensive 0622.rtfLet’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution 0622.rtfIn an Increasingly Warmer World, Trees Are Not a Climate Change Cure-All 0522.rtfCompanies Can Soon Start Paying the Bahamas to Store Carbon in the Ocean 0522.rtfQantas Places Burden of Cleaning Up Aviation on Sustainable Fuel 0322.rtfShould You Buy Carbon Offsets for Your Air Travel? 0122.rtfCoP26 Finally Set Rules on Carbon Markets. What Does It Mean? 1121.rtfWe Need a Bigger Planet to Fix the Climate with Trees 1121.rtfNet Zero Commitments from Companies in Hard-to-Fix Sectors 1021.rtfWill Russia’s Forests Be an Asset or an Obstacle in Climate Fight? 0721.rtfPlanting Trees “Doesn't Make Any Sense" in Fight against Climate Change 0721.rtfOnly 4-5% of Corn Belt Farmers Are Planting Crops to Store Carbon 0621.rtf5 Things to Know about the Global Race to Net Zero 0621.rtfThe Fastest Ways Aviation Could Cut Emissions 0521.rtfOne of Canada’s Biggest Carbon Sinks Is Circling the Drain 0521.rtfShipping Now Faces the Highest Price on Carbon for Any Global Industry 0521.rtfA 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.rtfBusinesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases from the Air 0121.rtfUnited Airlines Turns to CO2 Removal Technology to Offset Emissions 1220.rtfWhy ‘Carbon Offsets’ Don’t Do All That They Promise 0820.rtf - permanence, reality, additionalityAre Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype? 0920.rtfIs Carbon Farming a Climate Boon or Boondoggle? 0620.rtfIs Carbon Sequestration on Farms Actually Working to Fight Climate Change? 0420.rtfSpanish Oil & Gas Company Vows to Become a Net-Zero Carbon Emitter 1219.rtfIf Carbon Offsets Require Forests to Stay Standing, What Happens When the Amazon Is on Fire? 0819.rtfStripe Inc. Says Offsets Aren’t Enough; It’s Time to Pay for Negative Emissions 0819.rtfScientists Zero in on Trees as a Surprisingly Large Source of Methane 0619.rtfWhy Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation may Be Worse than Nothing 0519.rtfLyft - “We are now a fully carbon-neutral company.” 0918.rtfMangrove Conservation Is Economic 0812.rtf
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