EU chief urges global carbon pricing for climate finance boost

The President of the European Commission has urged world leaders to examine the implementation of global carbon pricing as a means to generate significant funding for climate finance

CO2 price hike could add an extra £1.7bn to the price of UK groceries

The price of a tonne of liquid CO2 is up 3,000% higher than it was a year ago, according to a new report

Government urged to put a carbon price on all goods and services

The Chancellor has been told to introduce a universal carbon allowance for every individual in the UK

Government seeks views on compensation price support for energy intensive industries

It is consulting on the risk of carbon leakage due to the indirect emission costs from the UK Emissions Trading System and carbon price support and the sectors most at risk

MEPs call for carbon price on certain EU imports from less climate-ambitious nations

They believe this would create a global level playing field as well as an incentive for both EU and non-EU industries to decarbonise in line with the Paris climate agreement

Microsoft to nearly double its internal carbon price

The technology giant will charge its internal divisions a rate of $15 per metric tonne on all carbon emissions

UK Government urged to retain carbon pricing post-Brexit

Lawrnce Slade said the carbon price support and the EU Emissions Trading System have ‘really helped’ drive investment in low carbon technologies

‘Economy-wide carbon tax would slash emissions’

Policy Exchange says effective carbon pricing would solve “a market failure that does great harm to the environment”

Carbon price ‘could cut Canada’s emissions by 90m tonnes by 2022’

Under the clean growth plans, provinces and territories have until 1st September to provide the government with a description of their first annual plan to price carbon pollution

Budget ‘must strengthen carbon price and renewables’

The Chancellor should use the imminent Autumn Budget to strengthen carbon pricing and extend subsidies for renewable energy. That’s the suggestion from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, which warns the freeze on the carbon price support rate at £18 per tonne is inconsistent with achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. The group […]