EU General Court to rule on ETS preliminary cases

Published 15:12 on August 12, 2024  /  Last updated at 15:12 on August 12, 2024  / /  Aviation/CORSIA, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, Climate Talks, EMEA, EU ETS, International

The EU’s General Court will take over the legal jurisdiction for hearing and deciding questions regarding preliminary rulings on the EU ETS, under a change announced on Monday. 

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FEATURE: Commonwealth promotes its model carbon tax, as CBAMs boost interest

Published 13:53 on August 7, 2024  /  Last updated at 13:53 on August 7, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, International, New Zealand, Other APAC

The Commonwealth of Nations is speaking to three jurisdictions about implementing a model carbon tax law that its secretariat published last year, and is planning to further promote the law at COP29.

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Australian gas giant bets on CBAM giving new green ammonia plant price advantage

Published 17:51 on August 5, 2024  /  Last updated at 17:51 on August 5, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA

Australia’s Woodside Energy has made a surprise $2 billion investment in a Texan clean ammonia plant, hoping the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and contracts-for-difference schemes in Asia will help it command a premium on the market.

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BRIEFING: Amid steel boom, Malaysia faces rising CBAM costs, climate target challenge

Published 10:04 on August 1, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:04 on August 1, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, Other APAC, Voluntary

Malaysia is expecting rapidly rising carbon emissions from its steel sector, which is expanding utilising CO2-intensive equipment that could put its climate targets at risk while imposing bigger costs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

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LATAM Roundup: Public, private sectors seek collaboration on carbon pricing

Published 17:01 on July 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 17:01 on July 29, 2024  / /  Americas, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, International, Mexico, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Carbon Pulse rounds up developments in Latin American and Caribbean carbon markets for the week ending July 28, which saw convergences between public policy on one hand, and private sector initiatives on the other, as a broadening array of LATAM countries and companies throw their weight behind carbon pricing.

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BRIEFING: Chile presents draft ETS timeline, floats carbon border tariff

Published 00:17 on July 27, 2024  /  Last updated at 00:17 on July 27, 2024  / /  Americas, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, International, Paris Article 6, South & Central, Voluntary

The Chilean government released a draft climate change plan for the energy sector late on Friday for public consultation, proposing an ETS pilot and broaching a carbon border adjustment mechanism.

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Developed countries should contribute trillions to support climate finance, BASIC bloc says

Published 07:19 on July 25, 2024  /  Last updated at 07:19 on July 25, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, China, Climate Talks, EMEA, International, Other APAC

The BASIC group of Brazil, South Africa, India, and China have repeated demands that rich countries ramp up their climate finance contributions, urging them to commit trillions of dollars to assist developing countries in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

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BRIEFING: EU looking into ways to simplify CBAM as early as 2025 -EU official

Published 12:21 on July 22, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:21 on July 22, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS, International

The European Commission is looking into ways to simplify the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) from as early as next year, the head of the Commission’s taxation unit told Carbon Pulse.

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Algeria sets sights on CCS to lower national carbon footprint -media

Published 19:37 on July 19, 2024  /  Last updated at 19:37 on July 19, 2024  / /  Africa, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, Middle East

Algeria’s government and private sector are looking to carbon capture and storage (CCS) to counterbalance emissions from oil and gas production, with an eye to minimising the impact of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to local media sources.

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BRIEFING: EU’s CBAM violates Paris Agreement principles, raises cost of decarbonisation in Global South, panellists say

Published 12:33 on July 19, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:33 on July 19, 2024  / /  Africa, Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, International, Other APAC, Paris Article 6

The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is in “clear violation” of the Paris Agreement’s principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) and places the burden of decarbonising heavy industrial sectors on the Global South, panellists told a webinar this week.

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