KEY OPINION: China’s New CO2 Market Can Get Teeth at the Will of the World’s Most Populous Nation, Says Carbon Pulse

By Mathew Carr

Jan. 5, 2021 — LONDON: I wanted to highlight this key opinion — of a reporter who’s followed the development of China’s national carbon market for many years.

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346438722770751488?s=20

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346438774780096514?s=20

My response:

Love your use of the technical term “shit” here …I find it fascinating that China is beating the #USA to this #climatechange punch…embracing markets where the “leader” of the “free” world won’t so far@johnkerry
— Mathew Carr (@carrzee) January 5, 2021

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346438908138070016?s=20

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346439102934073346?s=20

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346439226221465602?s=20

A not-stupid question:

Sorry for maybe a stupid question, but will these carbon credits be avilable for international investors to buy up? Can there become a linked EU-China emissions trading market, through middlemen?
— Loukas Christodoulou (they/them) (@Loukas_RS) January 5, 2021

https://twitter.com/StianReklev/status/1346443651065421828?s=20

Tsinghua University slide. See https://carrzee.org/2020/12/14/britain-touts-world-first-net-zero-carbon-market-as-it-leaves-eu-and-seeks-trade-deal-with-australia/

Another not-stupid question:

Thank you! I think what's fascinating is how you say it could all change fast if the pressure/demand was there, and I'm trying to imagine which circumstances could give it that hefty shove.
— Loukas Christodoulou (they/them) (@Loukas_RS) January 5, 2021

Hefty shove the whole world doesn’t want?

A major climate event such as the flooding of Shanghai…I seriously hope it won’t come to that…but leaders don’t seem to want to “be” the change …and China’s negotiation stance threatening more coal is understandable given Trump’s Paris pullout
— Mathew Carr (@carrzee) January 5, 2021

(More to come. I will seek responses from the China and the U.S. governments)

See this:
https://carrzee.org/2020/12/18/china-vows-to-seize-time-and-set-plan-to-peak-emissions-by-2030-and-cooperate-globally/

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KEY OPINION: China’s New CO2 Market Can Get Teeth at the Will of the World’s Most Populous Nation, Says Carbon Pulse

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