Articles about emissions trading
Category: Emissions Trading

An Article 6 Case Study: Brazil
In a recent post I illustrated how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement might work in practice, using a small set of archetype countries as …

How might Article 6 work in practice?
This is a critical year for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The ‘rule book’ wasn’t agreed at COP24 in Katowice, so the focus of …

Looking again at carbon pricing
It is Climate Week in New York and among the police barricades at the UN, the protests and traffic there is still the opportunity for …

Carbon pricing policy in 2018. Was it a year of progress??
Carbon pricing remains at the centre of most government policy discussions on climate change, but in a year which saw the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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What is a ‘mitigation outcome’?
The potential for carbon market development was included in the Paris Agreement, as Article 6, at the very last moment of the negotiations in December …

After San Francisco . . . .
In mid-September the climate change focused world turned its attention to San Francisco to attend, watch, listen and participate in the myriad of events surrounding …

The future is carbon trading
From time to time it is worth revisiting the rationale behind various initiatives, in part to better understand them but also to bring clarity to …

The Role of the EU Emissions Trading System
Over recent weeks, a number of media outlets have noted the launch of a new commission in Germany, officially known as the “Commission on Growth, …

After Bonn, is progress fast enough?
The Parties to the Paris Agreement spent the first two weeks of May in Bonn, discussing amongst other things, the so-called rule book of the …

Additionality and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
As negotiators gather in Bonn for another round of discussions on implementation of the Paris Agreement, various detailed issues are surfacing. One, which pertains to …
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