The price of carbon has once again hit a new low, closing today at just €0.16 - the lowest since the introduction of Carbon Trading began.
Will it continue to fall, could it reach zero? Only time will tell.
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Several leading academic economists, writing in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Journal, have praised the European Emissions Trading Scheme, according to the FT.
“The economists, including Denny Ellerman of MIT, Barbara Buchner of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Frank Convery, Joseph Kruger and William Pizer, said the European Union scheme should form the [...]

The Financial Times “undercover economist”, Tim Harford, reports on the differences between emissions trading schemes and carbon taxes, in this article. He declares in favour of a tax, since a tax may be more readily altered than a trading scheme, as circumstances change.
“The uncertainty about next year’s emissions is not very [...]

Today’s London Financial Times has an editorial calling for political action to secure a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, in the hope of avoiding a climate change catastrophe. Among good, strong words we read:
“Politicians will have to learn how to sell any deal, too. Many countries are responding to climate change by [...]

Even though prices for carbon permits have been flat this last week, it does not mean they will remain so. You can follow price movements in the market for carbon emissions permits automatically, through our Alert360 service. This is our automated software robot which sends you an email or a mobile text message whenever [...]