A new emissions trading scheme has opened in Korea, to join the seven regional schemes already working in parts of China, meaning that carbon trading ...

Flawed assumptions underlying the carbon trade are no different from those of the Enron and sub-prime crises. Maria Kielmas writes in this thought pro...

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When the European Union (EU) set up its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2001, the world’s first carbon trading market, advocates heralded a new dawn...

After the US sub-prime mortgage collapse and ensuing economic downturn the financial sector found itself out of favour with the public. But the invest...

‘Climate change’ and ‘global warming’ have crept their way into our everyday vocabulary, alerting us to the hazards of exponentially increasing concen...

The value of the global carbon market in 2014 will rise two-thirds from 2013 to reach €64bn (€39bn in 2013), and volumes traded will increase steadily...

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has voted to adopt a market stability reserve (MSR) to boost weak prices in the European carbon market...