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Carbon Market Fate in Europe Hangs on EU Vote to Fix Surplus
2013-02-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: European Union lawmakers may determine the fate of the worlds biggest carbon market when they vote today on a proposal to cut a record surplus of emission permits that has pushed prices to an all-time low. The European Parliaments environment committee is considering an amendment to EU emissions trading law that will enable sales of some carbon allowances to be delayed until the end of the decade, a process known as backloading. The panels non-binding opinion, due after 9 a.m. in Brussels,...
Corporate giants demand EU carbon market action
2013-02-14 11:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: More than 30 leading companies from across Europe have called on EU policy makers to back moves to bolster the flagging emissions trading scheme (ETS). A European parliamentary committee is set to vote next week on whether to support a so-called backloading plan to boost the carbon price, which would see the sale of 900 million carbon delayed until a later date. The European Commission hopes this backloading will reduce the huge surplus of allowances that has been blamed for driving the price...
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US carbon market revamp could show way for struggling EU ETS
2013-02-13 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: While the latest research suggests the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) is headed into the abyss, a healthy US-based system has just proposed targeting yet deeper emission cuts. The EU ETS was damned by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon analysts this week, labelling the collapse in the price to a low of EUR2.81 at the beginning of the month dramatic and enduring. Plans to hold back 900m credits from the next phase of trading are currently under debate in Brussels. Proponents say backloading...
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European Carbon Market in trouble
2013-01-27 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActive: EU carbon prices briefly slid 40% to a record low after politicians opposed plans to support the market, raising concerns prices could hit zero and sending a warning to European governments to pull together in lowering carbon emissions. Prices in the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Thursday (24 January) dropped to 2.81 a metric tonne after a vote in the European Parliament's energy and industry committee opposing a scheme known as "backloading" - or supporting prices by extracting allowances...
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EU's carbon market suffers after parliamentary vote
2013-01-24 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU carbon prices briefly slid 40 percent to a record low after politicians opposed plans to support the market, raising concerns prices could hit zero and sending a warning to European governments to pull together in lowering carbon emissions. Prices in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) on Thursday dropped to 2.81 euros a metric ton (1.1023 ton) after a vote in the European Parliament's energy and industry committee opposing a scheme known as "backloading" to support prices by extracting...
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