Asia pushes ahead on carbon markets

Friday - Despite the economic challenges posed by Covid-19, the past year was marked by a growing number of pledges from Asian countries to reach carbon neutrality.

10 YEARS AGO...

Thursday - Ten years ago, Carbon News was reporting the ETS had failed to boost forest planting.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.15

Tuesday - SPOT NZUs opened at $37.00 bid and $37.55 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.15.

AA calls for ETS revenues to be spent on green transport solutions

Tuesday - The AA has called on the government to spend revenue raised from the ETS on reducing transport emissions or mitigating the effects of climate change.

10 YEARS AGO...

Monday - Ten years ago, a trader was warning the price of NZUs could crash as a result of credits result from the destruction of nitrous oxide and other gases being banned from Europe's ETS.

WORTH NOTING...

9 Apr 21 - Tens of thousands of school students will take to the streets from Auckland to Invercargill today.

10 YEARS AGO...

8 Apr 21 - Ten years ago, the Government issued more than nine million carbon credits to the owners of post-1989 forests.

Call for finance sector regulation

7 Apr 21 - New regulations requiring the financial sector to disclose the greenhouse gas emission of their investment portfolios are needed, the Sustainable Business Network says in its submission to the...

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.02

7 Apr 21 - SPOT NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.20 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.02.

WORTH NOTING...

7 Apr 21 - Tomorrow Professor Frank Convery – founding director of the Earth Institute, University College Dublin, and expert on the low emission transition in Ireland’s agriculture sector - in conversation...

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

6 Apr 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.80 after fixing at $37.00.

NZ Initiative: leave it to the ETS

6 Apr 21 - An NZU price of $50 is all that’s needed to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the NZ Initiative.

WORTH NOTING...

6 Apr 21 - The annual Carbon Market Survey is now open, with the report due out in May.

10 YEARS AGO...

6 Apr 21 - Ten years ago, ETS Review panel was suggesting synthetic gases sector could be dealt with outside the ETS.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $36.90

1 Apr 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.20 offered, after last fixing $36.90.

WORTH NOTING...

1 Apr 21 - The annual Carbon Market Survey is now open, with the report due out in May.

'We hear you,' Govt tells worried manufacturers

31 Mar 21 - The country’s largest building company is calling for tariffs to protect local manufacturers from unfair competition from imports with higher carbon footprints – and the Government says it is...

Be careful with price controls, says Z

31 Mar 21 - Fuel retailer Z Energy says the Climate Commission’s advice on raising the cost containment trigger price of NZUs risks participants stockpiling NZU, affecting liquidity.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

31 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.20 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.00.

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