Switzerland announces dates, volumes for next two CO2 allowance auctions
Switzerland will sell 800,000 CO2 allowances across two auctions to be held in the next eight months, the government said on Thursday, as primary market prices in the country’s domestic ETS continue to fall.
Read MoreSwitzerland to raise national carbon tax by 14% in 2018
Switzerland will raise its domestic carbon tax by 14% next year after its emissions from fossil fuels again missed the country’s annual reduction targets.
Read MoreSwiss-EU ETS link to advance after immigration hurdle side-stepped
Officials are preparing technical proposals this year to the link the EU and Swiss carbon markets after both jurisdictions resolved an overarching immigration issue.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: Can this Swiss feed supplement do for cows what Tesla is doing for cars?
More than 1.5 billion cows graze this great earth, and each of them has four stomachs. That’s 6 billion bloated bags of good and bad bacteria, some of which aids digestion but some of which steals the cows’ half-chewed grass and corn and emits massive amounts of methane. Ecosystem Marketplace talks to an entrepreneur who is looking to develop offsets from a feed supplement that kills some of the methane-emitting bacteria in a cow’s gut while leaving the digestion-helping bacteria intact.
Read MoreSwitzerland takes another step towards EU ETS link with aviation data rules
Switzerland has taken another step towards integrating aviation emissions into its domestic carbon market and linking the scheme to the EU ETS.
Read MoreChina, EU beef up climate commitments as Trump breaks away
China and the EU have strengthened a joint statement on climate that will be delivered in Brussels on Friday, promising to step up their efforts after President Donald Trump moved to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement.
Read MoreReactions to Trump’s decision to pull the US out of Paris
President Donald Trump has announced that the US will leave the Paris Agreement but is open to renegotiating a “fairer” deal. Below is a collection of reactions from lawmakers, experts and other stakeholders from around the world over the decision.
Read MorePresident Trump confirms US withdrawal from “unfair” Paris Agreement
President Donald Trump has announced that the US will leave the Paris Agreement but is open to renegotiating a “fairer” deal, setting off a major rift between the Republican-controlled government and the rest of the world on climate change.
Read MoreValue of world’s carbon pricing schemes edges up year-on-year while govt revenues drop -report
The combined value of the world’s carbon markets and CO2 tax regimes rose by 7% in 2017, with eight new pricing initiatives helping to nearly double the total number over the past five years, but government revenues have dropped by some 15%, according to a new report published Tuesday.
Read MoreIneffective Swiss ETS should be scrapped if EU link stalls -govt agency
Switzerland should consider abandoning its ineffective and oversupplied ETS should a link to the EU’s carbon market not materialise soon, the country’s Federal Audit Office (SFAO) recommended this week.
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