The Carbon Market 3.12.2015
The ICE exchange from London currently trades as follows:
- EUA spot: € 8.56
- EUA Dec ’15 futures: € 8.57
- CER Dec ’15 futures: € 0.53
- Brent Crude spot: $ 43.20
- German Power ‘2016: € 29,10
The International CO2 Market
Nine businesses, including Aviva, Sky, Fuji Xerox and DPD, have joined the UN’s Christiana Figueres to speak out about the benefits of offsetting carbon emissions, at this week’s climate negotiations in Paris at the UNFCCC.
In a video released today, the companies explain why offset strategies are good business sense, the challenges and opportunities their approach has created, and why they believe it has made a difference. Companies throughout the world, including Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover and Marks and Spencer have adopted carbon-offset approaches to enable them to go beyond the reduction targets they could achieve through internal change.
Recent research from Carbon Disclosure Project Data shows that business who offset also take the lead in reducing their carbon emissions with the typical offset buyer cutting almost 17% of their scope 1 direct emissions compared to non offset buyers who reduced emissions by less than 5% in the same year.
By supporting carbon-offset projects, businesses are investing in the local environment and communities, delivering positive impacts beyond the carbon reduction. While these ‘co-benefits’ vary by project, a market representative average was recently calculated by Imperial College London University at $664 for every tonne of carbon offset.
Source: IETA, Paris