Month: May 2024

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Carbon pricing instruments currently cover around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. There are currently 75 carbon taxes and emissions trading systems worldwide, and the trend is rising.

According to a report by the World Bank, revenue from carbon pricing reached record levels last year, exceeding the USD 100 billion mark for the first time. More than half of the funds flowed directly into climate and nature conservation programmes.

In our view, the introduction of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will also lead to the introduction of carbon trading systems in other countries, which will have a stronger local steering effect so that the funds generated in this way can be used in the respective country and not channelled into the revenues of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

In the last trading week, the price of carbon emission allowances in EU Emissions Trading System rose by almost five euros or nearly seven per cent. The price has left important resistance at just under EUR 74 behind and has established itself above the 200-day-line, which is currently at EUR 72.40. If nothing fundamentally bearish happens and there is no major profit-taking, there is much to suggest that the price will remain above the 200-day line this week and not leave the upward trend channel. This could even lead to a test of the EUR 80 mark in the benchmark December 24 contract.

There will be no auction on the Leipzig EEX today (Monday) due to the Spring Bank Holiday and the Polish auction will also not take place on Wednesday as scheduled. As a result, only a total of 7,995,000 EUAs will be auctioned this week, which corresponds to just around 60% of the previous week’s auction volume.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Peter Wiese is the environmental policy spokesman for the largest political group in the European Parliament, the Christian Democratic EPP, where he is responsible for emissions trading and climate protection.

In view of the current 30% drop in the price of EU emission allowances compared to last year’s highs, Mr Wiese explained last week that the EPP does not believe it would be desirable for prices to quickly rise back into the three-digit range due to weakening European industrial production.

According to Wiese, the decarbonisation of industry will not work quickly enough and a deindustrialisation of Europe would lead to Europeans losing their prosperity and Europe not being a role model for the rest of the world. For this reason, Liese and his parliamentary group have insisted that the main effects of the tightening of European climate targets in emissions trading should not materialise until 2027, such as a reduction in the issue of free certificates but front-loading of emission allowances.

However, he also believes that the politically desired slump in the rise in European carbon prices is only temporary and emphasised that no one should be under any illusions: “Those who invest in clean technologies now will benefit in the long term. Those who believe they can simply carry on as before in the coming decades will be penalised”.

Last week, the price of the EUA-benchmark-contract December 2024 broke through the 200-day line several times, but closed below this strong resistance at the end of each trading day.

The 200-day-line currently stands at EUR 73.22 and last week’s closing price is just over one euro away from it. It will be interesting to see whether the price remains within the current upward trend channel this week and thus possibly breaks through the 200-day line or whether it heads in the direction of the 38-day line, which is currently at 67.79 euros.

Following last week’s holiday-related lower auction volume of 8.5 million EUAs, 12,000,500 emission allowances will be auctioned on the EEX this week, of which 906,000 EUAs are for the aviation industry, although these can now also be used for stationary installations.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

At the beginning of last week, the leading Western industrialized nations (G7) agreed in Turin (Italy) to phase out coal by 2035. Italy holds the G7 presidency this year.

This is three years earlier than Germany had legally stipulated. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the coal phase-out has already been set for 2030, but in the east of the republic, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Brandenburg, there were already reservations about a phase-out before 2038. Now that 2035 has been set, the structural change in these German federal states must be driven forward more quickly.

As suspected last week, the price of emission rights moved between the 38- and 200-day lines in the past trading week, even though a brief upward breakout from this price range was attempted on Friday.

On a weekly closing price basis, there was an increase of more than two euros and a closing price for the December benchmark contract of just above the 72 euro mark.

As this Thursday is Ascension Day, the auctions on Thursday and Friday have been cancelled. As a result, only 8,509,000 EUAs will be auctioned on the EEX energy exchange in Leipzig.

(The VER quotes are average rates (carboncredits.com), which can be used within the framework of CORSIA and voluntary carbon offsetting. 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