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Restrictions on CERs and ERUs

Friday - The use of international Kyoto credits in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme is to be restricted.

NZ keeps eye on Chinese carbon market muscle

Friday - The launch this week of the world’s second-largest carbon market, in the Chinese industrial powerhouse province of Guangdong, will have little direct impact on the New Zealand market, a leading trader says.

Melbourne expo might give us some answers

22 Nov 13 - Businesses looking for a steer on how Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund scheme will work could find it at the Carbon Expo Australasia next month.

What's going on in world carbon markets

22 Nov 13 - The Carbon Reduction Fund in Australia, backloading in Europe, markets linking in North America and the first carbon auction in China ... Westpac's carbon desk reviews the international carbon markets:

How Australia deals with carbon and electricity

22 Nov 13 - Westpac's head of electricity trading, CONNELL BURKE, explains the links between carbon and electricity in the Australian market:

Government plays loose with ETS facts

15 Nov 13 - The Government is claiming credit for climate change policies – including the Emissions Trading Scheme - introduced by its predecessor.

Buyers get interested

15 Nov 13 - The local market was sold down yesterday starting off at $3.25 and hitting $3.10 before closing $3.15 bid. OMFinacial reports:

Buy, bank, and hold....

13 Nov 13 - Despite the market having peeled off from the high $4s to the low $3s, we are not bearish. OMFinancial reports:

Hope from Europe

11 Nov 13 - The NZU market finished the week on a subdued note, as selling interest dries up for now. OMFinancial reports:

Dunedin takes serious look at carbon footprint

8 Nov 13 - Dunedin City Council is one of the first local authorities in the country to measure its carbon footprint against the global greenhouse gas standard, ISO 14064-1:2006.

Choppy market in Europe

5 Nov 13 - The market was very quiet yesterday, with very little interest from both the buy side and the sell side of the market to cross the spread. OMFinancial reports:

Papers reveal Treasury push for zero GHG target

25 Oct 13 - Treasury wanted New Zealand to adopt a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of zero per cent below 1990 levels.

Our GHG emissions on the way up ... not down

25 Oct 13 - New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are on track to rise by 2020, not fall as the Government has pledged.

Parties stay quiet on 2015 carbon auctions

25 Oct 13 - A new government might not auction carbon units in 2015.

Abbott wants ideas for emissions scheme

25 Oct 13 - Australia’s new Government is calling for submissions on how to design a scheme to replace the carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.

Greens quiz minister on emissions reduction

25 Oct 13 - News that New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are expected to grow by more than a third by 2040 prompted questions in Parliament this week, as Green Party climate change spokesman Dr Kennedy...

Nonchalant buyers and disinterested sellers

23 Oct 13 - History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes - and that probably sums up the NZU market at present, OMFinancial reports.

NZ turns away Australian carbon units

18 Oct 13 - More than two million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) issued under that country’s Carbon Farming Initiative will not be eligible for surrender in New Zealand.

WORLD WEB ... news from the world of carbon

18 Oct 13 - Polluters eye $4b, airlines emissions charges, China carbon pricing, climate all at sea, worms are heroes, bye-bye Oracle, Quakers talk tough.

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