Asset manager to set up rare Chinese carbon offset fund

Published 12:49 on May 10, 2022  /  Last updated at 12:49 on May 10, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China, Voluntary

A Chinese asset management company has teamed up with a project developer to supply millions of offsets to an investment trust that will be the first of its kind in China.

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CN Markets: Chinese carbon remains rangebound and lightly traded in the absence of new policy signals

Published 10:37 on April 29, 2022  /  Last updated at 10:37 on April 29, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

Allowances in China’s national emissions trading scheme edged down marginally over the past week, but remained in the same range as in previous weeks with little going on to provide direction for traders.

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Exchange staffers live in office during Shanghai lockdown to keep China carbon market open

Published 12:40 on April 27, 2022  /  Last updated at 12:56 on April 27, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, Bavardage, China

A group of staffers at the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange have been living in the office for nearly a month to ensure the Chinese carbon market operates as normal while the entire city is locked down due to a Covid-19 outbreak.

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China’s carbon exchanges team up to streamline local offsets

Published 11:53 on April 25, 2022  /  Last updated at 11:53 on April 25, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

China’s nine regional carbon exchanges will band together to launch a unified offsets scheme, aiming to connect the many local offsetting schemes that have emerged across the country over the past year in the absence of a national market.

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CN Markets: CEAs flat as China’s carbon market enters hibernation

Published 13:19 on April 22, 2022  /  Last updated at 13:19 on April 22, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

Spot allowance prices in China’s emissions trading market have not moved for almost two weeks, as the long wait for clarity on the next trading period drains liquidity bar the occasional block trade.

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Chinese power companies post huge carbon trading windfall earnings

Published 07:24 on April 22, 2022  /  Last updated at 07:24 on April 22, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

Several major coal-fired power producers in China have reported large carbon trading related revenue for 2021, reflecting the benefits for efficient coal plants in the nation’s intensity-based emissions trading scheme.

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China likely to introduce key ETS reforms in 2023 -govt advisor

Published 02:50 on April 19, 2022  /  Last updated at 02:50 on April 19, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

China is set to introduce major changes to its national emissions trading scheme such as bringing in more sectors and begin auctioning of some CO2 permits from the 2023 compliance year, according to a leading academic who is advising the government on ETS design.

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China thermal power generation decline in March amid increase in renewables, COVID outbreak

Published 09:06 on April 18, 2022  /  Last updated at 09:06 on April 18, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

China’s thermal power generation declined last month for the first time since last December, while total generation growth dropped to near zero, official data showed Monday.

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CN Markets: CEAs rise marginally, but outlook clouded by lack of supply, regulatory news

Published 10:25 on April 15, 2022  /  Last updated at 10:25 on April 15, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China

The spot price in China’s national carbon market remained firm over the past week, but traders lack enthusiasm about the near future as the market is seeing little action and no regulatory progress.

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Forest-rich Chinese province to reward counties that host carbon sink offset projects for all markets

Published 10:35 on April 14, 2022  /  Last updated at 10:35 on April 14, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, China, International, Nature-based, Voluntary

A province in southwestern China has promised to reward local governments that host forest carbon projects that achieve registration under domestic or international offsetting programmes.

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