China's carbon market records its first cross-border deal

Hong Kong transactions are rare good news for system as daily volume shrivels

20210813 China solar in desert

 An institution and an individual from Hong Kong bought nearly 10,000 tons of China Certified Emission Reductions (CCERs) from a solar power project in the Kubuqi Desert in northern China. © Reuters

WANG LIWEI and DENISE JIA, Caixin

Even as trading on China's national carbon market dwindled away in its first month to next to nothing, one sign of life emerged this week in the form of an unusual cross-border deal for a voluntary form of carbon emission credits.

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