Emissions Trading / Carbon Market News (30/12/2019)

Dear Sir or Madam,

While Germany is arguing about bans on New Year’s Eve fireworks and a uniform speed limit, the US weather agency NOAA reported last week that 2019 was the second hottest year globally after the record year 2016 so far. The average temperature of the land and ocean areas of the earth was 0.94 degrees Celsius above the average of the 20th century. 2015, 2017, 2018, 2014, 2010 and 2013 also made it into the top ten of the hottest years.

The prices for European CO2 emission rights are currently stable during the auction break despite rising oil prices. In the second week of January, the auction volume also begins to be cautious; only 8,544,000 EUAs will be put up for auction. In the following week, the volumes increased significantly to 16,966,500 EUA and 810,500 EUAA (emission allowances for air traffic).

Overall, due to the lower free allocation on the Leipzig EEX, significantly more emission rights will come onto the market through the auctions in 2020. These are in particular 493,571,000 EUA from the EU member states, 131,266,000 EUA from Germany and 141,067,500 from Poland. Furthermore, 4,588,500 EUAA for the EU member states, 801,500 EUAA for Germany and 112,500 EUAA for Poland are to be auctioned in the coming year.

We do not want to miss to wish all readers of our newsletter a good start into the new year and a happy and healthy 2020!

  (Average Quotes Exchange / OTC)      
Instrument 20/12/2019 27/12/2019 Change
EUA (Spotmarket) 26.58 EUR 26.54 EUR -0.04 EUR
EUA (December-2019-Future) 26.67 EUR 26.70 EUR +0.03 EUR
CER (Spotmarket) 0.22 EUR 0.26 EUR +0.04 EUR
ICE Brent Crude Oil (Benchmark Future) 65.13 USD 68.12 USD +2.99 USD
EURO (Currency, Forex) 1.1078 USD 1.1173 USD +0.0095 USD

(The average exchange quotes and OTC-prices shows the average between bids and ask of several exchanges and OTC markets for carbon emission rights in the ETS. Bid and ask has usually in Spot Market a visible spread. CER CP1 and ERU are eligible in ETS until end of March 2015 and must be swapped into EUA. Crude Oil and Euro Currency shows day-end-exchange quotes. This market information has just an informational character and are no advice or offer to trade carbon emission rights or their futures and options. If you want to unsubscribe, please reply to this mail.)

Please call our international carbon desk if any further questions exist: +49.2831.1348220.

With kind regards,

Advantag Services GmbH

Emissions Trading / Carbon Market News (23/12/2019)

Dear Madam or Sir,

The new elections in Great Britain have now accelerated the former “infinite history” of Brexit to the maximum. Last week, the British Parliament approved the Brexit law and there is little doubt that the EU Parliament will shortly agree to the negotiated deal. This would finally put an end to all horror scenarios of an unregulated exit, but by no means all uncertainties have been resolved. Because the exit contract regulates the procedures for the separation, but not the basis for future relationships.

And this also affects the emissions trading system. There are of course working papers on the future direction, but far from a decision as to how the British will proceed with regard to CO2 pricing. Some experts predict a CO2 tax here, but there are also considerations regarding their own British trading system. This could then be linked to the European ETS and / or other systems. However, it is also still possible for Great Britain to remain in the ETS as a non-EU country, either until the end of the third trading period on December 31, 2020, or even, if legal requirements are implemented, even beyond.

With all these considerations in mind, the relevant question is floating around, what will become of the marked British EUAs, which were not auctioned in 2019 due to the risk of an unregulated Brexit. There are an estimated 120 to 150 million EUAs that could possibly still flow into the market. However, there is still no final clarity here. If, for example, they came onto the market in weekly auctions over 2020, that would roughly mean three million certificates per week.

The auction-free winter break began on Tuesday of the last trading week and the market reacted with an extremely significant price increase. From its lowest point on Monday, the price rose unstoppably and, after a short breather on Friday, passed the € 27 mark early this morning.

(Durchschnittliche Börsenkurse / OTC)      
Instrument 13/12/19 20/12/19 Veränderung
EUA (Spotmarket) 24.01 EUR 26.58 EUR +2.57 EUR
EUA (Dezember-2020-Future) 24.02 EUR 26,67 EUR +2.65 EUR
CER (Spotmarket) 0.20 EUR 0.22 EUR +0.02 EUR
ICE Brent Crude Oil (Benchmark Future) 64.93 USD 65.13 USD +0.20 USD
EURO (Currency, Forex) 1.1120 USD 1.1078 USD -0.0042 USD

(The average market prices and OTC prices show the respective mean of supply and demand of different trading venues for CO2 emission rights. Bid and ask usually deviate from the mean by several cents. Crude oil and euros show closing prices. The CER prices are CP2 -CERs, which can be used within the framework of the EU-ETS. Our market reports are not recommendations for trading emission rights or their derivatives and are for information purposes only. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please send a short message to Sender.) 

Our trader team will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Sincerely yours, 

Advantag Services GmbH

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2020!

Dear Sir or Madam,

At the end of the year we would like to thank you for the good and successful cooperation in 2019!

We wish you and your friends and family members a peaceful Season holiday and a good start to a healthy and successful New Year 2020!

Instead of sending Christmas cards or gifts by mail, this year we have voluntarily compensated for twenty-five tons of CO2 from the international climate protection project (CDM PK5461 in Pakistan), which avoids the emission of 458,114 tons of CO2 equivalents annually by reducing the emission of nitrous oxide (N2O), what in the atmosphere is 298 times more harmful to the climate than the greenhouse gas CO2.

With Christmas greetings

Your ADVANTAG team

Emissions Trading / Carbon Market News (16/12/2019)

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Chilean leadership of the world climate conference, which ended yesterday with the biggest delay in its history, was clearly disappointed by the outcome of the summit. The participants probably could have started their departure already on Friday, because the efforts of Chilean Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt to get a presentable result in the extension failed because of bitter resistance of a few states – above all Brazil. But even the USA, Saudi Arabia and Australia did not want to commit themselves to binding regulations for international cooperation and thus in connection with global trade in climate protection certificates.

A year ago, the summit in Poland had already failed on the same question, and now it is to be finally addressed in Glasgow in 2020. However, one does not have to be a downright pessimist to express doubts here. The states do not shake off the decisions of Paris in principle, except for the USA, which had declared its withdrawal from the agreement and thus officially will step off on 4 November 2020. But these national interests remain, which are closely linked with the interests of the lobby around fossil energy sources and could not be overcome so far. Thus the question of how the international community of the UN wants to solve this knot justifiably arises.

A few days ago, the European Union also found itself facing a similar question, with its new Commission President von der Leyen pushing ahead with the proposal of a so-called “Green Deal”. Here it was Poland that refused to sign. But here, too, the focus should be on the other states, which have apparently understood that the pace of global processes in favour of the global climate lags far behind the worsening climate crisis. There is also a growing awareness and indignation that a few states are in a position to block important processes.

Last week, the CO2 market was once again influenced by speculative traders. During the first days of trading, the price stagnated at 25 euros. It was not until Thursday that the market began to gain momentum again. On Friday the price was even pushed to just below the 26 Euro mark. But the bulls apparently ran out of steam at this point. When the mark was not overcome, the bears again took over the direction. The price melted away and only found support in early trading just above EUR 23.50 today.

  (Average Quotes Exchange / OTC)      
Instrument 06/12/2019 13/12/2019 Change
EUA (Spotmarket) 24.88 EUR 24.01 EUR -0.87 EUR
EUA (December-2019-Future) 24.94 EUR 24.02 EUR -0.92 EUR
CER (Spotmarket) 0.18 EUR 0.20 EUR +0.02 EUR
ICE Brent Crude Oil (Benchmark Future) 64.34 USD 64.93 USD +0.59 USD
EURO (Currency, Forex) 1.1055 USD 1.1120 USD +0.0065 USD

(The average exchange quotes and OTC-prices shows the average between bids and ask of several exchanges and OTC markets for carbon emission rights in the ETS. Bid and ask has usually in Spot Market a visible spread. CER CP1 and ERU are eligible in ETS until end of March 2015 and must be swapped into EUA. Crude Oil and Euro Currency shows day-end-exchange quotes. This market information has just an informational character and are no advice or offer to trade carbon emission rights or their futures and options. If you want to unsubscribe, please reply to this mail.)

Please call our international carbon desk if any further questions exist: +49.2831.1348220.

With kind regards,

Advantag Services GmbH

Emissions Trading / Carbon Market News (09/12/2019)

Dear Sir or Madam,

Germany was one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the past year. Consequently, the Federal Environment Agency recently issued a very detailed statement on the climate change in transport and emphasized the term “reduction gap”. The report shows that even if the measures and instruments adopted so far are implemented, the reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will be missed by far. In order to close this reduction gap, the Federal Environment Agency recommends numerous measures. These include, among other things, a quota of 70% for new registrations of electric vehicles and a higher taxation of vehicles with high CO2 emissions as well as for diesel engines. In addition, several other correctives are proposed, such as the traveling allowance and the truck toll. Whether these will ever even be considered in the next years remains to be doubted, so that we should get used to the concept of the reduction gap already now. Perhaps it will soon be the sad “word of the year”.

In the first week of December, European emissions trading was under pressure from a high auction volume of fresh allowances and a simultaneous sharp dip in oil prices. In the week now beginning, the number of EUAs to be auctioned is again more moderate and the oil price has also shot up significantly since Friday, because the group of OPEC states and other players agreed after long negotiations on a sharper production cut than expected. In the coming months, the 24 countries want to pump 500,000 barrels of oil out of the ground less per day than at present. The so-called OPEC+, with its heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Russia, has already been trying more or less successfully for three years to influence the oil price with such production limits.

  (Average Quotes Exchange / OTC)      
Instrument 29/11/2019 06/12/2019 Change
EUA (Spotmarket) 25.12 EUR 24.88 EUR -0.24 EUR
EUA (December-2019-Future) 25.22 EUR 24.94 EUR -0.28 EUR
CER (Spotmarket) 0.18 EUR 0.18 EUR +0.00 EUR
ICE Brent Crude Oil (Benchmark Future) 60.76 USD 64.34 USD +3.58 USD
EURO (Currency, Forex) 1.1017 USD 1.1055 USD +0.0038 USD

(The average exchange quotes and OTC-prices shows the average between bids and ask of several exchanges and OTC markets for carbon emission rights in the ETS. Bid and ask has usually in Spot Market a visible spread. CER CP1 and ERU are eligible in ETS until end of March 2015 and must be swapped into EUA. Crude Oil and Euro Currency shows day-end-exchange quotes. This market information has just an informational character and are no advice or offer to trade carbon emission rights or their futures and options. If you want to unsubscribe, please reply to this mail.)

Please call our international carbon desk if any further questions exist: +49.2831.1348220.

With kind regards,

Advantag Services GmbH