The price of carbon allowances for the second phase of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme, which runs from 2008 to 2012, has fallen to less than €20 from a late-May peak of €25.

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The CO2 market has seen considerable erosion in the value of European Emission Allowances (“EUA”) over the last couple of weeks. While EUA were traded at levels far above of 22 EUR/t (with a peak at 26.00 EUR/t on 30/05/2007),...

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Germany is to auction nearly 40 million mt of EU emissions Allowances each year during Phase 2 of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (2008-12), a government official said Wednesday.

Germany should sell CO2 allowances into the market via a third party instead of auctioning them in order to avoid delays and price distortions, according to carbon market consultancy 3C Group.

The German government envisages both the selling and auctioning of 40m emission allowances instead of solely auctioning, according to carbon asset managers 3C.

The amount of CER imports will not be sufficient to cover the shortage of carbon credits in the second emissions trading phase, said Clemens Huettner, head of carbon investment advisory at 3C, at an energy conference in Prague.

The Group of Eight, a forum of the world's major industrialized countries, meets this week in Germany. High on the G-8 agenda is the issue of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that warms the planet. European governments...

Buyers and sellers are gearing up to trade Russian carbon credits after Moscow this week signed key legislation that will allow Russia to start approving Kyoto projects.