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CCC vs ARB – A Prophet’s view of the Courtroom

January 25, 2017Created By: Harry Horner

In a packed Courtroom yesterday in Sacramento, the latest twist of the Californian climate narrative played out: the Appeals Court heard the oral arguments in the pivotal Air Resources Board vs California Chambers of Commerce auction case. CaliforniaCarbon.info spoke to climate law specialist Nico Van Aelstyn of Beveridge and Diamond,…
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The Battle for Offsets: In the Mind of EJAC

January 24, 2017Created By: Harry Horner

In the wake of the proposed Scoping Plan, CC.info spoke to Katie Valenzuela Garcia, a prominent member of California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC), and as such, one of the lead campaigners against offset use in California. This interview ranges over the motivations for their opposition to offsets, to their…
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Regulatory Round-up: Proposed Scoping Plan brings post-2020 future into focus

January 23, 2017Created By: Harry Horner

(CaliforniaCarbon.info, Jan 23, 2017) “the Proposed Scenario—continuing the Cap-and-Trade Program with additional reductions from the refinery sector—is the clear choice to achieve the State’s climate and clean air goals” “On balance it is clear that the Proposed Scoping Plan Scenario is the only alternative to meet all the criteria.” ‘the economic…
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The Battle for Offsets: Health, communities and socioeconomics, with Derek Six of ClimeCo and Brian Shillinglaw of New Forests

January 19, 2017Created By: Billy Hamshaw

Last week CC.info caught up with Kevin Townsend of Blue Source, and Jeff Cohen of EOS Climate to discuss the economic and market argument for the continued inclusion of carbon offsets within the California Cap-and-Trade program. In this, the second part of CC.info’s coverage on the ongoing offsets debate, Billy…
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The Battle for Offsets: An economic case with Kevin Townsend of Blue Source, and Jeff Cohen of EOS Climate

January 9, 2017Created By: Harry Horner

ARB’s new Scoping Plan is rapidly taking shape – the proposed plan is due out this week, and the document will shape the next decade of the program. However, a debate over the future of offsets in California has sprung from the plan’s drafting process. Environmental Justice groups around the state…
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Policy perspectives with Jon Costantino: The Intersection of Policy Planning and Future Realties

December 19, 2016Created By: Harry Horner

Californian environmental policy expert Jon Costantino is a regular and exclusive feature writer for CaliforniaCarbon.info. On the back of a highly successful career in environmental policy and law, he has recently started his own legal consultancy – Tradesman Advisors. CaliforniaCarbon.info wishes the very best in this endeavour, and would be more…
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13.4 million registry offset credits awarded to Colville IFM in program’s largest ever issuance

December 18, 2016Created By: Billy Hamshaw

CaliforniaCarbon.info, December 19, 2016: In record-breaking news for California’s cap-and-trade program, over 13 million registry offset credits (ROCs) have been awarded to The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Finite Carbon for an Improved Forest Management (IFM) project in Washington state. Spanning an area almost half a million acres in…
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After-Auction Review – November, 2016

December 9, 2016Created By: Harry Horner

A wide-ranging statistical breakdown of trends and observations from the Western Climate Initiative Joint Auction 8. Download report (PDF) Download report (PDF) Related posts: After-Auction Review – February, 2016 After-Auction Review – November, 2015 After-Auction Review – August, 2016 After-Auction Review – May, 2016...

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Auction Results: Most current vintage volume ever cleared on auction at 76.9 million, subscription at 0.88

November 23, 2016Created By: Harry Horner

(CaliforniaCarbon.info, Nov 23, 2016) Summary: The ninth WCI joint auction held on November 15, 2016 was slightly undersubscribed for the current auction with a bid-to-cover ratio of 0.88, the advance auction saw a subscription of 0.10. Consequently, both auctions sold at the auction reserve price of $12.73. A total of…
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2015 California Covered Emissions Report & 2030 WCI Carbon Price Forecast Update

November 17, 2016Created By: Harry Horner

Download the Report (pdf) In light of recently released 2015 covered emissions data for Californian entities, emissions covered under CP1 registered a decline of 4.74% as compared to last year. The combined CP1 and CP2 covered emissions registered a fall of 0.72% between 2014 and 2015. This decline is in…
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