carbon price

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Britain’s power supply is now the seventh cleanest in the world after climbing 13 places in a global league table. That’s according to researchers at Imperial College London, who in collaboration with the Drax Group, compared the carbon content of electricity supplies across various large countries between 2012 and 2016. They said the UK’s strong […]

Europe turning away from coal will see carbon prices remain weak for at least 13 years. That’s according to a new study by Thomson Reuters, which suggests the faster large European nations phase out the carbon-intensive fuel from their electricity mixes, the quicker demand will be reduced for carbon allowances. Coal power represented 23% of […]

Singapore plans to impose a carbon tax in the next two years in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That means power producers and large carbon emitters will have to pay a tax for each tonne of carbon they release. The government states the carbon price “will generally be applied upstream, for example, on power stations […]

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement has received mixed reactions. One of the announcements included maintaining the cap on Carbon Price Support rates, which stands at £18t/CO2 until 2020/21. Jeremy Nicholson, Director of the Energy Intensive Users Group said the industry feels disappointed the government didn’t abolish it. He added: “Carbon Price Support continues to undermine the […]

  The government has confirmed it is maintaining the cap on Carbon Price Support rates and pledged investment for electric cars, innovation and infrastructure. Philip Hammond made the announcement during his first and last Autumn Statement as Chancellor as he revealed it will be abolished. That means following the spring 2017 Budget and Finance Bill, […]