The global economic slowdown will increase available carbon trading licenses in the European emissio...
The global economic slowdown will increase available carbon trading licenses in the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) by almost half, lowering the price of carbon-based exchange traded funds (ETFs) and commodities (ETCs), analyst IDEAcarbon has said. With European industrial output predicted to fall to 1% over 2008 and decline by 0.7% in 2009, total carbon emissions are also expected to decrease, lowering the shortfall of trading licences by 44% from 206m tonnes to 115m tonnes between 2008 and 2012. As the reduced shortfall effectively represents greater supply within the market, ...
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