CMS Carbon Commentary

Carbon Market Solutions carbon commentary

Is there something we haven't been told?

Friday - Carbon Market Solutions asks as to consider a situation now confronting many forest owners who opted into the Emissions Trading Scheme:

Buy shares … and turn the heater off

17 May 13 - When Labour and the Greens presented their energy policy aimed at restraining the ever- increasing electricity price, they were derided by all and sundry, including the Prime Minister, says Carbon Market Solutions.

Renewable energy can be a reality in Pacific

5 Apr 13 - Just over a week ago the Pacific Energy Summit was held in Auckland attended by a large number of energy stakeholders including Pacific Islands government delegations headed by leaders, as well as participants from development partners such as the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Japan and other countries.

Carry-over of Kyoto units not what’s wanted

22 Mar 13 - The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ended on December 31.

Meet the ETS winners ... and losers

1 Mar 13 - Depressed, depressed, and depressed sounds like a state of mind, and for some it could well be, but indications are that the erosion of the Emission Trading Scheme as a cost effective mechanism for reducing and abating greenhouse gas emissions is real and spreading across the planet.

We've become small-scale and stand-alone

8 Feb 13 - A mere 12-to-24 months ago, many in the carbon business in New Zealand believed the chances of synergising the New Zealand carbon markets with other markets, such as the emerging Australian carbon market, were good, Carbon Market Solutions says.

Dull year behind us, flat year ahead

18 Jan 13 - The past 12 months have seen little domestic activity in terms of NZU purchasing to meet obligations under the ETS.

ETS progress? You're better off going fishing

14 Dec 12 - By WAYNE KING, Carbon Market Solutions. Now that the climate talks are completed in Doha, and before the Christmas break and the New Year, can we take stock and feel optimistic about agreed...

Dodgy Doha poor place for climate talks

30 Nov 12 - As world leaders gather in Doha for the COP 18 climate change talks, Wayne King, a veteran of COP 1, reflects on progress to date.

If the world burns, we burn

16 Nov 12 - A number of comments made by the public about the Government's decision to not sign up to the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol appear to be made from a position of lack of understanding...

Carbon not quite a cot case yet

26 Oct 12 - The Emissions Trading Scheme has been described recently as comatose and on a stretcher, says Carbon Market Solutions.

Which way will landowners go?

5 Oct 12 - In 2008, when the Emission Trading Scheme legislation was passed, a lot of attention was focused on those forest owners who still intended to change land use from forest to agriculture, Carbon Market...

Beware the carbon cowboys

14 Sep 12 - When times get tough, usually those on the fringes of reputable commodity transactions fall away, only to begin a new life when a new commodity emerges - often seeking recognition and credibility in...

Was that the sound of a slamming door?

31 Aug 12 - The announcement this week by Australia’s Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, of an arrangement between Australia and the European Commission whereby the Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism is to...

A good word to use is languish ...

3 Aug 12 - Do we really want to know what is going on with the carbon markets in Europe and elsewhere, Carbon Market Solutions asks.

Time for a green tariff?

13 Jul 12 - A “green” tariff for electricity (also known as a “feed-in” tariff in other countries) is an economic incentive provided by a government for those identified sectors or project developments to “get...

Carbon forestry in hibernation

6 Jul 12 - The announcement from Government on the review undertaken in 2011 on the Emissions Trading Scheme will provide a continuation of the status quo for the next two years, and reveals fundamentally good...

Don't trade in the Holden on a push bike

29 Jun 12 - Twenty years after he attended the Rio Earth Summit, Carbon Market Solutions' Wayne King looks at progress and hopes for the future:

Why the lag in alternative energy progress?

22 Jun 12 - The government, having won the last election, believes that it now has an overwhelming mandate to offer a range of State-owned enterprises to the market in order for it to capture revenues that will...