EU Parliament votes to put CORSIA aviation offset scheme under closer watch
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to extend the suspension of extra-European flights from the EU ETS, but called for a review of the UN’s CORSIA scheme that could see those routes become regulated under the bloc’s carbon market again in the future.
Read MoreTwo carbon traders on gardening leave after parting ways with employers
Two carbon traders have started gardening leave after parting ways with their respective companies, Carbon Pulse has learned.
Read MoreBrussels puts Swiss-EU ETS link on course from 2019
The Swiss and EU carbon markets are due to link from 2019 after the European Commission on Wednesday published proposals to advance the process.
Read MoreSwitzerland 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.
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