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The summer holidays are over. Carbon traders had a fun August in which EUA prices went up €22 and then went back down €22, but now the grown-ups are back from the beach and stuff's getting real, writes Alessandro Vitelli. By Alessandro Vitelli The…
September 02, 2022
Article at Carbon Pulse
By Alessandro Vitelli European carbon prices have followed their now-traditional course in August by rising on the back of the 50% reduction in auction volumes. This has happened every year since 2008 – with one exception – and is pretty much baked…
August 19, 2022
The European Commission’s plan to bring roughly 200-250 million EUAs out of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) and auction them to raise €20 billion to fund the bloc’s shift away from Russian energy has jolted the EU ETS, igniting “trust” concerns by…
May 26, 2022
EU lawmakers want to clamp down on speculative traders participating in the EU ETS. There’s been a steady drumbeat of complaints over the past few months from MEPs and some member states, claiming that unnamed speculators have driven the price of…
May 12, 2022
It’s been a somewhat wild start to 2022. As the energy index below shows, we had a relatively calm start to the year before Russia invaded Ukraine and the fertiliser hit the fan. Europe’s carbon market saw extreme volatility as speculative investors…
April 01, 2022
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December 16, 2021
Number of investment funds active in EU ETS market up 50pc in 2021, exchange data shows European carbon prices have risen by a third in the last three weeks, from €65/t ($73/t) to a record €87/t, mainly on increased buying by speculative and…
December 08, 2021
Article at pemedianetwork.com
It hasn’t taken long for governments to notice the EU ETS, spitting out revenue at the rate of half a billion euros a week, and get the idea that here is a mechanism ready-made to be exploited at a time of crisis. But a new Greek proposal marks a…
September 22, 2021
So the latest peak in European carbon prices is over. EUAs climbed to a record of €63.35 on September 8 and have settled back at around €60 over the past week. I suppose the question is: is that it? Are we done for the year, or are prices going to…
September 19, 2021
(Montel) The UK may issue additional allowances to its carbon market if UK Allowance prices remain above GBP 45.90/t during June, July and August, the government announced late on Thursday. The latest “trigger price” will operate alongside the…
June 10, 2021
Article at montelnews.com
(Montel) The Ice Endex exchange has suspended the trading of EUA/EUAAs amid technical issues, it said on Monday. Ice sent a message to traders announcing the suspension on its web-based trading platform at around 09:40 CET. “The exchange is aware…
June 07, 2021
(Montel) La bourse Ice Endex a suspendu la négociation de quotas carbone européens EUA et EUAA (aviation) en raison de problèmes techniques, a-t-elle annoncé lundi. La bourse en a prévenu les traders dans un message sur sa plateforme d'échanges en…
June 06, 2021
(Montel) EUAs are expected to trade either side of EUR 50 in the coming week, as support from industrial buying provides support as the six-month price rally appears to have paused. Sources pointed to an increasingly gloomy macroeconomic outlook,…
June 04, 2021
Opportunity to bring together UK and EU markets, but China’s new scheme lacks compatibility with other systems The UK's launch last month of its emissions trading system (ETS) has brought the issue of linking markets back to the top of the agenda in…
June 02, 2021
The UK ETS has been up and running for more than a week now, and while it might be stretching things to say that we can already see a few trends, there are nonetheless a few interesting developments worth noting. UKAs listed on ICE for delivery in…
May 31, 2021
(Montel) The UK government is considering selling additional carbon allowances which were not allocated to industrial plants this year, according to a source at the country's department of business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS). UK…
(Montel) The UK government said it has finished issuing free UK Allowances (UKAs) to industrial installations as part of the first year of its carbon emissions trading system (ETS). “UK ETS free allowance entitlement for 2021 was transferred to…
May 27, 2021
(Montel) The UK sold its first tranche of carbon UKAs at auction on Wednesday for GBP 43.99/t amid a wider sell-off in European allowances. The British sale received bids totalling 29.3m, according to data from Ice Futures, representing a cover ratio…
May 19, 2021
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