Recent news headlines are proclaiming trouble in carbon markets. Questions are being raised about the world’s global system of carbon trading, the United Nations’ backed Clean Development Mechanism, due to the lack of firm guarantees by governments to support the system beyond this year. And the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, the oldest and largest carbon [...]

The fall in Europe’s carbon price has further dented the confidence of Australian companies working to either offset or reduce the country’s emissions. A carbon offset company says business interest halted at least a year ago because of uncertainty over the Coalition’s plans, and now Europe’s price fall is more bad news. EU carbon permits [...]

Until 2012, Europe was central to the global carbon market; heck, it was the only “real” market. Carbon offset project developers invested billions to earn Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and sold them to European companies and traders participating in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Projects had [...]

Late last month, executives gathered in London for the Aviation Carbon 2013 summit. A few themes developed from this summit.  Among the themes was that  any adopted carbon emissions offset program must show a verifiable difference to the health of the environment, and that any carbon emissions offset program must be simple to join.  Discussion [...]