Archive for April 29th, 2006

UK abandons courtcase

29th 2006f April, 2006, Peter

The UK Government has abandoned its legal battle with the EC aiming to increase its overall carbon emission allocation by 20m tonnes in Phase 1 of the ETS.  The reason given was “in the interests of establishing certainty”, according to the Financial Times (2006-04-29).
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FT: ‘Carbon trade on trial’

29th 2006f April, 2006, Peter

With the dramatic fall in prices of carbon emission permits this week, the Financial Times responded today with an editorial (2006-04-29). Here is an excerpt:
“This is a tricky time for the trading system because governments are, for the first time, reporting their actual level of emissions. What put the carbon price into temporary free [...]

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