EU carbon prices to see “modest” recovery in 2025 -analysts

Published 00:53 on December 12, 2024  /  Last updated at 00:53 on December 12, 2024  /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS

EUA prices will see a “modest” recovery in 2025, driven by a series of mildly bullish factors, a European investment bank said Wednesday.

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Bank warns that consensus around tight EUA market in 2026 could be blown off course

Published 16:58 on December 11, 2024  /  Last updated at 16:58 on December 11, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS

Consensus there will be sharp tightening in the EU ETS market in 2026 could be shocked when new free allocation numbers are published by the EU Commission, an investment bank has warned.

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FEATURE: EU weighs touchy question of whether to count international carbon credits towards CBAM

Published 15:03 on December 11, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:00 on December 13, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS, International

The EU is weighing how its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) should treat the international credits included in the carbon pricing schemes of other countries — with climate experts and industry representatives divided on whether these should be deductible from border fees.

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Turkiye offering €2.8 mln to help it transpose EU ETS Directive into national law

Published 17:21 on December 10, 2024  /  Last updated at 17:21 on December 10, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS, Middle East

Turkiye has launched a €2.8-mln tender seeking a contractor to help it transpose the EU ETS Directive into national law and analyse the impact of the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on the country.

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UPDATE – EU should use CBAM revenues to help poorer countries decarbonise their steel too -think tank

Published 17:32 on December 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 17:56 on December 10, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS, International

The EU can paint its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in a good light by redistributing revenues to help the least developed countries decarbonise their own steel industries, according to research published on Monday.

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LATAM Roundup: Distress and opportunities as CORSIA, CO2 taxes, CBAM take root

Published 05:58 on December 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 05:58 on December 9, 2024  / /  Americas, Aviation/CORSIA, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, Mexico, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

In a week that saw UN civil aviation body ICAO publish its technical report on the flagship CORSIA offsetting scheme, which is being incorporated into national regulations around the world, this and other compliance carbon pricing initiatives posed diverse challenges and opportunities around the LATAM region – from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana, and Mexico to Brazil.

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EU likely to propose exempting small companies from CBAM in early 2025, senior EU official says

Published 16:51 on December 5, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:34 on December 6, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS

The European Commission is likely to next year put forward a proposal to exclude small companies from the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a senior official told Carbon Pulse on Thursday.

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EU should reconsider giving CBAM exemptions to most vulnerable -report

Published 16:09 on December 5, 2024  /  Last updated at 16:09 on December 5, 2024  / /  Africa, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA

The EU should reconsider exempting the least developed countries, as well as Ukraine, from its incoming carbon border fee, and use its revenues to help developing countries decarbonise their industries and minimise the blow, a think tank recommended this week.

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Carbon pricing, technology ASEAN’s best answer to CBAM -report

Published 14:20 on December 5, 2024  /  Last updated at 14:20 on December 5, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, International, Other APAC, Voluntary

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries must actively implement carbon pricing mechanisms and increase investment to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors in order to effectively respond to EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a report has found.

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Carbon capture could have huge climate impact for cement sector -report

Published 15:45 on December 4, 2024  /  Last updated at 15:45 on December 4, 2024  / /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS

Cement decarbonisation technologies, including carbon capture, supplementary cementitious materials, and alternative fuels could help the sector cut an extra 422 million tonnes of CO2 emissions over the next decade, according to a new report.

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