The range of prices in the market has reduced the ability to measure cost-effectiveness. Nevertheless, the graph illustrates that linking the cost of CER reductions to the market price was not the best way to account for abatement.
(Full Article)The December 2008 EUA price has varied between 12.25 and 30.25, from September 2005 to March 2008, with an average of 20 giving an average secondary CER price of 16
(Full Article)There is no single price in the primary CER market, but rather a range of prices depending on the characteristics of the projects and the contract structures
(Full Article)In 17 CDM projects studied; new non-river run hydro dams, generated CERs even though the cost was potentially higher than the payment for doing so.
(Full Article)The Australian carbon market rules drafted in the White Paper require holders of permits to report when they and their associates have 5 per cent or more of a particular vintage.
(Full Article)Australia's Low Pollution Future White Paper told Skywest Airlines, the Regional Aviation Association, Virgin Blue and Qantas, they had to pay the carbon Virgin Blue estimated emissions intensity of aviation to be around 800 tonnes of CO2-e per million dollars of revenue (Submission 461, p. 2). At a carbon price of $25 per tonne of CO2-e, this represented approximately a 2 per cent increase in the cost of air travel, which is broadly similar to the general level of inflation in the consumer price index in any given year.
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