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Participation game
What Pennsylvania’s participation in RGGI means for emission allowance prices
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Reflexivity and the EU ETS 'Endgame'
In an earlier post for Carbon Risk I referenced an article published in the Financial Times called ‘Carbon price: efficient market does its bit for the planet’. Coming just weeks after the EU carbon price reached €100 per tonne the author concludes that, “Finally, carbon has reached a price high
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The carbon tracking opportunity
Real time tracking of GHG emissions and carbon sinks is a huge growth market
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Repost: Why Asia is pivotal to future carbon market growth
A prolonged heatwave has cooked much of Asia during the month of April. Temperatures climbed to 45°C in Myanmar, 44.5°C in India and 41.9°C in China, with Thailand and Laos breaking all-time high records. The oppressive weather has resulted in a surge in electricity consumption
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BECCS - the carbon removal chimera
Once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power station, the Drax power station in North Yorkshire, England officially called time on coal this week. Over the past decade the power station has converted all four of its coal units to burn biomass instead, and now imports wood pellets sourced from forests
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Investment funds ditch carbon after failure to decisively breach €100
After first pushing through €100 per tonne on 21st February, the EU carbon market then twice attempted to push decisively through the €100 per tonne level, failing on both occasions. That was enough of a signal for investment funds to dial back their exposure. The latest Commitment of Traders (COT)
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Protection money
Halting deforestation will come with a hefty price tag
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Chemical reaction
The European chemical industry has been a lightening rod for the forces unleased by the energy crisis. In comparison to other energy intensive industries, the chemical sector is particularly vulnerable to changes in economic sentiment. Often the first to feel the impact of rising consumer demand, the sector is also
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Split by the atom
Political divisions threaten nuclear powers role in Europe's energy transition
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Australia's carbon market reforms get the green light
The election of a new government in May 2022 has sparked new life into Australia’s carbon market. In August the new government announced plans to increase the country’s 2030 emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement to 43% below 2005 levels (up from 26–28% previously), while also
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Prosperity bends the curve
"Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term. Goals for more growth should specify more growth of what and for what." - Simon Kuznets, the creator of Gross National Product (GNP)
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Char grilled
Why biochar is the most promising carbon removal technology