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EU ETS reform to focus on investments, price stability, top official says
The upcoming revision of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) will aim to turn the bloc’s carbon market into an “investment machine” while maintaining a rules-based system to ensure price stability, a senior European Commission official has said.
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CP Daily News Ticker: 15 April 2026
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EUROPEAN CLIMATE SUMMIT 2026
European Commission backs state-led international carbon credit purchases
A senior European Commission official said that the EU will favour a centralised purchasing framework to acquire international carbon credits to help meet its 2040 climate target, rather than rely on individual companies to procure them directly.
MSR reform to leave EU carbon prices unchanged in near term, analysts say
Proposed changes to the EU’s Market Stability Reserve (MSR) are unlikely to affect carbon prices in the near term but could leave a larger volume of allowances in the system later in the decade, analysts said on Wednesday.
EU ETS inclusion will not push waste back to landfill, study suggests
Including municipal waste incineration in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is unlikely to trigger a shift back to landfilling because policy, infrastructure and contracts leave very little room for that to happen, according to a new report for Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) published on Thursday.
Carbon pricing schemes must be flexible for climate goals to be upheld, say experts
Carbon pricing policies must be flexibly designed to ensure they can be tweaked to align with political realities, in order to retain electorate support for climate goals, said experts at a conference.
Spanish government reiterates ETS support
A senior Spanish government official restated their continued support for the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), as the bloc prepares for an upcoming review of the scheme’s design this summer.
Stronger price certainty, targeted support needed to unlock EU ETS industrial decarbonisation
Clear and predictable carbon price signals, alongside financial support mechanisms, will be needed to unlock industrial decarbonisation under the EU ETS, experts in Barcelona said Wednesday.
Wildfires are still an underestimated risk for carbon projects – satellite data can help
Wildfires are still an underestimated risk among carbon project developers, despite increasingly sophisticated satellite data that can warn developers about where risk is likeliest to occur and alert them as soon as any fire breaks out, experts said at a conference Wednesday.
EMEA
EU Parliament committee passes compromise to extend ETS2’s supply-control mechanism to 2035
Lawmakers in the European Parliament environment committee approved a deal on Wednesday to keep allowances in the Emissions Trading System for heating and transport (ETS2)’s Market Stability Reserve (MSR2) fully valid until 2033, with partial validity until 2035.
Brussels signs off on Czech, German state aid for emission-cutting projects
Prague and Berlin received European Commission approval this week to provide state aid to projects that can help to reduce emissions – by adding biomethane production stations in Czechia, and supporting peatland rewetting on farmland in Germany.
Euro Markets: EUAs drop back after failing to establish above key resistance as funds build length
European carbon allowances gave up some of Tuesday’s price gain after failing to make a convincing break above a key psychological and technical price area, even as weekly position data showed speculative traders beginning to rebuild long positions after the steep sell-off of the first quarter, while energy markets reflected a mixed outlook of rising hopes for peace talks as well as a tightening blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
BSI announces release of new standard for environmental management systems
British body BSI has unveiled a revised version of its major environmental management systems standard, aiming to help organisations better align with rising climate commitments, ESG priorities, and tightening regulatory requirements.
AMERICAS
Washington linkage with California-Quebec aligns with state climate law, draft ECY analysis finds
Washington’s proposed linkage with the California-Quebec carbon market aligns with the former’s state climate law, as it could subdue allowance prices and minimally shift overall emissions, according to a draft analysis published Wednesday.
US biomass burial project announces sale of all its credits
A US-based forest carbon project developer has announced the sale of 100% of the credits from its biomass burial carbon removal (CDR) project in Montana.
Finnish development fund grants $15 mln loan to Panama forestry venture
A Finnish state-backed development fund has signed a $15 million loan agreement with a Panamanian-based sustainable forestry venture managed by a global emerging markets investment firm, in a deal aimed at expanding reforestation, sustainable timber production, and long-term environmental impact initiatives.
Puerto Rico municipalities seek revival of hurricane damages case against oil majors
More than three dozen municipalities in Puerto Rico told a federal appeals court on Monday that their claims against major fossil-fuel companies over hurricane damages are timely because an alleged decades-long campaign to obscure climate science delayed discovery of the facts needed to sue.
ASIA PACIFIC
Second Safeguard compliance year sees 10.8 mln ACCUs surrendered
The second compliance cycle of Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism has seen entities retire 13.4 mln emissions units surrendered, with covered emissions falling 2.3%, according to data published Wednesday.
Japan’s GHG emissions fall to record low in FY2024
Japan saw its GHG emissions fall to a record low in the fiscal year ending in March due to wider adoption of non-fossil fuel sources and slower manufacturing activities.
INTERVIEW: Sri Lanka’s carbon market ‘a world of opportunity’ held back by state inertia, says local developer
Sri Lanka has no meaningful carbon market today, but has the potential to unlock millions of tonnes of compliance-grade credits if bureaucratic delays and financing gaps are resolved, according to a Colombo-based developer.
Australia invests $25 mln in credit generating feed additive technology for livestock sector
The Australian government has invested around A$35 million ($25 mln) in feed additive technologies for the livestock industry to drive down emissions while creating carbon credits, it announced Wednesday.
VOLUNTARY
Gold Standard consults on new lock-in risk tool for carbon crediting
Switzerland-based Gold Standard has launched a public consultation on a new analytical tool designed to tackle the risk of lock-in to high-emission or suboptimal technologies under its carbon crediting framework.
Tech firms launch world’s first at-sea maritime methane removal pilot
Technology developers have launched a 12-month pilot of a methane removal system aboard a bulk carrier, marking what the companies say is the first deployment of the technology under normal commercial shipping conditions, with ambitions to generate Gold Standard-certified carbon credits from the mitigation.
BRIEFING: Pricing biodiversity in carbon markets can boost nature tech revenues amid sector headwinds
Measuring biodiversity co-benefits in carbon markets could offer nature tech companies an opportunity to increase revenues, at a time when the sector is set to face headwinds due to funding challenges, according to experts.
Large CDR developers at biggest risk from potential Microsoft pullback -analysis
Large-scale, capital-intensive carbon removal (CDR) projects would likely be the hardest hit by a potential Microsoft purchase slowdown, according to a Wednesday analysis by a carbon data company.
INTERNATIONAL
INTERVIEW: Patchy emissions data risks slowing global carbon trading, UN reviewer says
Inconsistent methodologies and uneven data for calculating national greenhouse gas inventories are emerging as a constraint for the development of international carbon markets, a UN technical expert warned.
AVIATION/SHIPPING
BRIEFING: Airlines face CORSIA bottleneck as government approvals lag
Airlines preparing for compliance under the UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme are running into a shortage of host country approvals needed to use carbon credits, even as project supply continues to grow.
US powers of disruption weakened in upcoming talks on net zero shipping -experts
The US remains a “disruptor” in upcoming UN talks about cutting emissions from shipping, although the oil crisis has helped to sharpen the business case shifting to clean fuels, experts said on Wednesday.
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