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In a rarity, the latest California-Quebec cap-and-trade auction sold future-year greenhouse gas credits at a higher price than allowances to satisfy current compliance obligations, underscoring regulated industries’ determination to prepare for future requirements as minimum credit prices are mandat...
"It’s a way to compensate households for the fact that the price of milk might go up at the corner store and that the price of gas will go up," Scott Murtishaw, an energy adviser to CPUC told theSan Jose Mercury News. The state held itsfirst cap-and-trade auctionin November, sel...
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"The governor is using cap and trade auction proceeds to play Santa Claus for himself and his Sacramento colleagues, doling out dollars for bullet trains and subsidized housing and transit schemes," Harold Johnson, attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation,toldE&E News."The connection between ...
California's legislative and regulatory policy straddles the fence on this question, reflecting equivocation in the economic foundation of California's policies. The statutes impose a predetermined emission cap and authorize Cap-and-Trade as an implementation instrument, but they also require that ...
On 22 September 2017, Governor Brown of California, Ontario Premier Wynne and Québec Premier Couillard signed a linking agreement extending the existing link of the California and Québec cap-and-trade programs to also include the Ontario program. The three programs, all belonging to the Western ...
KCCA is a fund thatoffers exposure to the California cap-and-trade carbon allowance program, one of the fastest-growing carbon allowance programs worldwide. Its benchmark is the IHS Markit Carbon CCA Index. The CCA includes up to 15% of the cap-and-trade credits from Quebec’s market. ...
California’s first quarterly cap-and-trade auction of the year settled at $29.27 per ton of carbon today. That’s $12.49 less per ton than at this time last year, meaning the state raised $850 million instead of $1.1 billion to fund everything from wildfire mitigation to utility bill re...
Between about 1998 and 2012, a time that coincided with political negotiations for preventing climate change, the surface of Earth seemed hardly to warm. This phenomenon, often termed the 'global warming hiatus', caused doubt in the publ... I Medhaug,Tolpe, Martin B. S,EM Fischer,... -...