Alessandro Vitelli
Carbon Expo 2006 – or was it?
The story goes that in 2006, the first set of verified emissions data leaked out about a week before the due date, during the annual...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Mar 28, 20213 min read
2021 BC (beyond coal)
Over the past few months it’s become apparent that an increasing number of people believe that the first part of the EU ETS’ work –...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Everybody wants some
A month ago I reported on the rumours that the European Commission was considering action to limit the influence of speculative traders...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Mar 3, 20215 min read
Standardising the un-standardisable?
By now you might have read a few headlines about the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and various efforts to scale it up and make it more...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Feb 18, 20214 min read
The CDM and the Paris Agreement
About a decade ago, the market for Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) was ploughing a furrow either side of €12.50, daily trading...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Feb 12, 20213 min read
Brussels gets twitchy
I have edited and updated this blog to add some thoughts on Article 29a, and to include some information from Carbon Pulse, who repost...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Feb 3, 20214 min read
May you live in interesting times
Well, this has been an interesting week. In the space of 72 hours carbon has risen 14%, reached a new all-time record and if things keep...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Jan 8, 20214 min read
Expect the unexpected?
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” (Marcus Aurelius) Unless you’re an industrial...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Dec 17, 20204 min read
UK ETS: It's (officially) a thing
(see edit at end of blog) So it’s official – the UK will launch its own emissions trading system in 2021. Of course, it won’t actually...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Nov 27, 20204 min read
Phase 4's starting pistol misfires
The last week has seen a couple of significant changes to the predicted supply schedule for the start of EU ETS Phase 4, and while they...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Nov 18, 20203 min read
Has EU carbon rounded the corner?
We are now in the last four weeks of the Dec 20’s reign as the front-year futures contract. There are fewer than 25 daily auctions left...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Oct 29, 20204 min read
All change?
The worm is turning. European power economics are shifting in favour of coal, especially at the front of the curve, and this might be...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Oct 11, 20208 min read
Autumn stock-take
It's officially autumn; compliance buyers are weighing up the choice between doing their 2020 buying now or waiting till the spring, fuel...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Sep 22, 20205 min read
Europe's tangled climate to-do list
Given everything that’s been going on – in a political/regulatory sense – in Europe this past fortnight, I’m finding it a little...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Aug 24, 20204 min read
A maturing market, but less of it?
In principle, carbon emissions markets are self-destructive. Once the cap on emissions has been lowered to zero, or as near to zero as it...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Aug 19, 20204 min read
The UK's political choice between an ETS and a CO2 tax
There are just four months left until the UK and EU need to reach an agreement on a future trade deal before the transition period comes...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Jul 29, 20205 min read
Bridging the gap?
About a month ago I wrote about how carbon is embroiled in a “Fundamentals vs Technicals Deathmatch”, and from the vantage point of the...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Jul 9, 20204 min read
No time to be tinkering
An excellent article by Carbon Pulse published today reveals that members of the European Parliament are concerned about excess price...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Jun 23, 20203 min read
Fundamentals v technicals deathmatch
The Great Covid Sell-Off is over. Now it’s the Great Covid Rally. EUAs are now back where they were in the middle of February, and all...
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Alessandro Vitelli
Jun 3, 20204 min read
What’s the point of a carbon floor price?
Every so often in Europe, the discussion over carbon floor prices raises its head above the parapet and sets off a flurry of learned...
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