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In Balance takes a reasoned look at some of the key components of climate policy. It is particularly interested in carbon markets and energy markets. The perspective is mainly British or European, but there are often articles about international poli
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What does the economic outlook mean for the EU’s climate change plans?
Climate change was the hot topic at last year’s World Economic Forum. This time round, it is sub-prime loans and the debt markets; SocGen and the equity markets; and the economic fundamentals that m...
Slumping EUA price makes an equity bounceback look unlikely
European carbon allowances are slumping alongside share prices. As the value of the FTSE 100 dropped yesterday by 5.5 per cent, EUA 2008 future prices dropped by 6.6 per cent. The price of emissions a...
Stopgap legislation required to prevent energy generators holding consumers to ransom
Newpapers today reported a calculation by Ofgem that credits distributed free to energy generators in the second round of the EU ETS will net them £9bn. The Association of Electricity Producer’s de...
A suggestion for a cap and trade scheme that maximises clean development
Cap and trade systems that allow participants to submit offsets are designed to allocate resources to the cheapest projects that reduce emissions, across the whole world. Take a look at McKinsey’s m...
Price differential between voluntary offset markets points to fake projects and weak quality regimes
Offsets are in principle a sensible way to allocate funding for clean development in other parts of the world. The regimes that govern the generation of emissions credits for use in the voluntary mark...
Shipping has nothing to fear from the UK’s Climate Bill
Intertanko, the tankers’ trade association, told the BBC on Friday that it has calculated emissions from shipping to be around double those of aviation (actually, we already knew that – German res...
Personal carbon trading experiment demonstrates how activists work in cap and trade schemes
Something very interesting, and a bit unexpected, happened at a recent RSA CarbonLimited event in Manchester. Carbon Limited is a project that looks at personal emissions trading schemes, and the even...
Tesco rejects offsets, but the industry continues to look strong
Tesco today scrapped plans to sell retail offset packages. The supermarket giant’s reason was that the public seems to have become disenchanted with offsets – partly due to scepticism about the qu...