💥 European #carbon price hits €100 for the first time 💥

Crossing this symbolic threshold is huge news - let´s unpack it:

🇪🇺 Launched in 2005, the EU #ETS is the largest emission trading system in the world and covers 45% of the EU´s #ghgemissions.

🔎 Under the EU ETS, companies are allocated a certain number of carbon allowances, which represent their allowed level of emissions. The so called cap and trade system incentivises companies to reduce their emissions through a gradually decreasing amount of emission allowances.

💶 Naturally, the price of such allowances goes up over time. It has now reached €100.

Why does this matter?

💡 Carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) currently only exist in the voluntary carbon market (#VCM). In the medium to long-term, it will hopefully transition to being a tool in compliance markets, especially for hard to abate emissions, most likely starting with the EU ETS (after 2030). This would provide a demand multiplier for CDR.

💪 €100 per tonne is a realistic price for many high-quality/novel CDR solutions, e.g. #biochar. Allowances reaching this price point is a good indication that CDR might become financially sustainable within a compliance market within specific industries in the future.

There are many other impacts of this historic moment - well captured in the Financial Times article linked in the comments.