As the EU works to reset its emission reduction goals to align more closely with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, a question arises …
Category: Carbon price
Getting to net-zero emissions with the EU ETS
Perhaps the biggest policy development of 2020 (possibly lasting through to 2023 or so as all the legislative requirements are agreed and put in place) …
The future of carbon pricing
At this time of the year I usually review the progress in implementing carbon pricing around the world, but it seems timely to look more …
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 …
Why is Article 6 so contentious?
The Parties to the UNFCCC convened in Bonn through the second half of June to continue discussions relating to the Paris Agreement, but particularly to …
Is Direct Air Capture the future?
Almost all scenario thinking that relates to the goal of net-zero emissions during the second half of this century has to consider the role of …
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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The missing links after COP24
With much applause and many congratulatory statements, COP24 in Katowice finally ended on Saturday evening, after a marathon flurry of activity to get the Paris …
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 …
