MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.15

Tuesday - SPOT NZUs opened at $37.00 bid and $37.55 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.15.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

Monday - Spot NZUs opened at $36.90 bid and $37.20 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.00.

10 YEARS AGO...

8 Apr 21 - Ten years ago, the Government issued more than nine million carbon credits to the owners of post-1989 forests.

Call for finance sector regulation

7 Apr 21 - New regulations requiring the financial sector to disclose the greenhouse gas emission of their investment portfolios are needed, the Sustainable Business Network says in its submission to the Climate Change Commission.

10 YEARS AGO...

7 Apr 21 - Ten years ago British electricity generators were facing a minimum carbon price of 16 quid a tonne - more than twice being paid by those in NZ at the time.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

6 Apr 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.80 after fixing at $37.00.

NZ Initiative: leave it to the ETS

6 Apr 21 - An NZU price of $50 is all that’s needed to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the NZ Initiative.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $36.90

1 Apr 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.20 offered, after last fixing $36.90.

Carbon price is coming, one way or another

1 Apr 21 - Australia is about to get a carbon price, one way or another. Unfortunately, the process is shaping up to be much more economically damaging than it could have been, says Sydney Morning Herald senior...

TEN YEARS AGO...

1 Apr 21 - Ten years ago, British electricity generators were facing a “huge” carbon price as the Government set new price floors.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

31 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.20 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.00.

Reserve Bank calls for Govt lead on green bonds

30 Mar 21 - Government intervention is likely to be needed to encourage greater investment in green bonds, the Reserve Bank says.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.00

30 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $37.00 on CommTrade this morning.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37.05

29 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.90 bid and $37.10 offered on CommTrade this morning after last fixing at $37.05.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $37

26 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $38.80 bid and $37.10 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $37.00.

TEN YEARS AGO...

26 Mar 21 - Ten years ago, carbon prices were stopping landowners from converting forests into farmland.

MARKET LATEST: NZUs $36.95

25 Mar 21 - Spot NZUs opened at $36.80 bid and $37.10 offered on CommTrade this morning, after last fixing at $36.95.

Carbon markets prove resilient to the coronavirus pandemic

25 Mar 21 - After the 2008 global financial crisis, the price of pollution permits on the European Union emissions trading system plummeted, hitting confidence in carbon markets as a lever for climate action.

Why we need a carbon club

25 Mar 21 - If the three biggest economies - China, the United States and the European Union - agree a carbon tax on imports, it will catalyse climate action globally, a new paper says.

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