The cumulative transaction volume of the national carbon market reached 194 million tons a year

Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, July 16 (Reporter Wang Moling and Chen Yunfu) Reporters learned from the "2022 China International Carbon Trading Conference" held by the Shanghai Environment Energy Exchange on the 16th that the national carbon market officially launched on July 16, 2021 The cumulative transaction volume of carbon emissions (CEA) has been running for a year, with a total of 194 million tons and a cumulative transaction value of 8.492 billion yuan.

According to the data released by the Shanghai Environmental Energy Exchange on July 16th, from July 16, 2021 to July 15, 2022, the national carbon market runs a total of 52 weeks and 242 trading days. More than half of the total number of units. From the perspective of transaction volume, the national carbon market has traded transactions on each trading day since its opening, and the transaction volume has changed significantly with the contract cycle. The transaction price has risen slightly in the past year. The first day of the first day ago was 48 yuan per ton, and the current price was around 60 yuan per ton.

It is understood that the construction of the national carbon market is a major institutional innovation of using market mechanism control and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting green and low -carbon development. It is also an important policy tool to promote the realization of carbon peak targets and carbon neutralization. The government distributed the carbon emissions quota to the enterprise through the corresponding mechanism. Once the actual emissions of the enterprise exceed the quota it owned, in order to complete the performance, the enterprise needs to purchase the quota of other market entities in the carbon trading market.

[Editor in charge: Feng Li]

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