COP-22: Nations get two years to firm up Paris Agreement rulebook
UN climate negotiations ended in Marrakech in the early hours of Saturday morning with agreement on setting a two-year process to write the rulebook underpinning the Paris Agreement.
Read MoreFiji, Poland tapped as next COP hosts
Fiji will chair next year’s UN climate summit in the German city of Bonn while Poland has proposed to once again host the talks in 2018, sources told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreEU and China plan meeting to forge closer carbon market ties worldwide
The EU and China will convene a meeting of carbon market nations in the first half of 2018 with the aim of advancing work on linking emissions trading systems.
Read MoreNew Zealand in search of partners as nation prepares to splurge on carbon credits
New Zealand could meet as much as 80% of its Paris Agreement obligations through the international carbon market, and Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett is at UN talks in Marrakech to line up nations with which to link or trade, according to a government document.
Read MoreEconomists Stiglitz, Stern to chair high-level carbon pricing commission
Renowned economists Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern will chair a new high-level commission tasked with examining how to use carbon pricing to meet the emissions reduction pledges under the Paris Agreement and identifying the social and economic benefits of such an approach.
Read MoreGermany widens work on CDM’s future as UN talks hold it in limbo
Germany has commissioned independent experts to help unblock global talks on how the CDM could port into the Paris Agreement, as UN negotiations remain bogged down on the issue.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Switzerland, Canadian provinces in high-level carbon market linking talks
Switzerland, Quebec and Ontario have opened high-level talks over linking their carbon markets, several well-placed sources told Carbon Pulse, in what could develop into a bridge between North America and Europe’s emissions trading schemes.
Read MoreBRIEFING: How President Trump’s climate policy axe may fall
Now that the dust has settled following Tuesday’s US election and a climate change sceptic has been put in charge of the EPA, it’s becoming ever clearer that US climate efforts will be one of the main policy areas to be targeted by a Trump presidency and all-Republican legislature.
Read MoreBattlefield Article 6: Governments clash in Marrakech over shape of future international carbon markets
Negotiations on global carbon trade at UN climate talks in Marrakech have highlighted several divisive issues, some new and some old, surrounding how countries can cooperate on emissions cuts and how new international market mechanisms will work.
Read MoreOrganisers re-frame Carbon Expo event to lean towards climate finance
The lead organisers of carbon market conference Carbon Expo have rebranded the event as Innovate4Climate and are suggesting a more featured role for climate finance when it returns next May.
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