Angela Merkel signals hope for carbon market fix

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German Chancellor says a certain amount of backloading is required to ensure prices return to 'a sensible level'

The European carbon price jumped to a three-month high yesterday, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed reforms to the bloc's emissions trading scheme. According to Bloomberg, the price of emissions...

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