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China sets 18% carbon intensity reduction target by 2020
China released its thirteenth five-year plan on Saturday, pledging to cut the carbon intensity of its economy to 18% below current levels by 2020, a target that is likely to guide the CO2 cap in its national emissions trading scheme.
Current EU climate targets mean €5 EUAs, little fuel-switching through 2030 -Barclays
European carbon allowances will average €5 through all of the fourth phase of the EU ETS (2021-2030) under the bloc’s current climate targets, meaning prices won’t be high enough to incentivise Europe’s biggest utilities to shift towards burning cleaner fuels until after 2030, Barclays said in an analyst report Monday.
China’s greenhouse gas emissions may have already peaked -study
China’s carbon emissions may have peaked in 2014, but were they to rise in coming years the increase would be modest, a study said Monday.
CN Markets: Shanghai CO2 price finds fresh depths as China’s pilot markets face difficult year
Shanghai’s CO2 allowance price fell to a record low 8.50 yuan ($1.30) on Monday, with other Chinese carbon prices remaining depressed across the board amid uncertainty surrounding how the pilot schemes will cope with falling emissions and the looming transition to a national ETS.
EU Market: Oil, energy complex thrust EUAs to highest close in 2 weeks
EU carbon prices closed at their highest in two weeks on Monday, guided higher by a late buying surge and as the wider energy complex was lifted by Brent crude rising above $40 for the first time this year.
Canada’s BC mulling carbon tax increase
British Columbia is considering increasing its carbon tax, the premier of Canada’s westernmost province said last week.
European Commission sets dates for 2015 EU ETS emissions data release
The European Commission will release preliminary verified EU ETS emissions data and compliance information for 2015 starting on Friday Apr. 1, the 28-nation bloc’s executive said on Monday.
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Digital Marketing Executive (B2B), ClimateCare – Oxford, UK
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Carbon Projects Officer, CO2balance – Taunton, UK
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Program Officer, Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) – Washington DC
Intern (voluntary), Carbon Market Institute – Melbourne
Summer internships, Carbon Credit Capital – New York
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Bite-sized updates from around the world
TransCanada Corp. says three of its Alberta power plants will become unprofitable as a result of a changes to Alberta’s carbon levy, so it plans to terminate their power purchase agreements. (Globe and Mail)
The latest issue of Pitt & Sherry’s CEDEX takes a closer look at the underlying factors pushing up carbon emissions from Australia’s national electricity market in 2015.
And finally… A group of UK cross-party MPs and campaigners – led by former Labour leader Ed Miliband – are calling on lawmakers to make the country’s Paris carbon reduction targets legally-binding. The new legislation would significantly extend the UK’s current target to cut emissions by 80% by 2050. (Guardian)
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