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Your company may be in a position to sell excess certificates from:
lower levels of production internal reduction projects CDM and/or JI projectsBefore you begin you might like to read the information in the panel to the righthand side of this page, which covers Certificate Types and Internal Management of CO2.
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Question 1: Do you have excess certificates from lower levels of production?
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Question 2: Do you have excess certificates due to internal reduction projects?
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Question 3: Do you have excess certificates from CDM or JI projects?
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Further information about selling emission certificates and organisations and services that might be helpful before and during the selling process are displayed in the information panel.
There are 5 main types of emission reduction certificate:
- Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)
- Emission Reduction Units (ERUs)
- Voluntary Emission Reductions (VERs)
- EU-Allowances (EUAs)
- Assigned Amount Units (AAUs)
Read the Overview of Certificate Types
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Find out more from websites of European and regional brokers, traders, banks and exchanges in the SETatWork Database.
There are several circumstances in which you can save some of your allocated certificates (EUA) due to lower levels of production. As a consequence you are able to sell your over allocation of certificates (EUAs) on the market. Alternatively you can bank them for later use. More...
In order to perform any internal reduction measures, two requirements need to be fulfilled - the cost-efficient potentials and the financial guarantees/reliabilities must exist. Reductions measures bring a company various benefits, however, there are also risks connected with introduction of reduction measures. More...
You are in the position to sell project-based certificates out of CDM/JI projects, if:
- You are conducting your own CDM/JI project and can generate carbon credits out of it
- You are holder of carbon credits from CDM/JI projects (e.g. from funds or from a broker for the carbon market) and have no need to save them for compliance reason and can sell them on the market
There are 5 main types of emission reduction certificate:
- Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)
- Emission Reduction Units (ERUs)
- Voluntary Emission Reductions (VERs)
- EU-Allowances (EUAs)
- Assigned Amount Units (AAUs)
The document Overview of Certificate Types includes:
- further information about these different types of certificate
- details of the relative importance of these certificates types on the European and world markets
- price ranges for various certificates
Read the Overview of Certificate Types
Use the SETatWork Database to find links to Carbon Market information
Companies who are affected from the EU emission trading scheme (EU ETS) have to establish a permanent monitoring system in order to calculate their actual CO2 emissions in a correct and transparent manner.
Read the following document to find out more:
There are several circumstances in which you can save some of your allocated certificates (EUA), for example:
- Interruption of production because of accidents, breakdowns and complete overhaul
- Lower production caused by a partial shut-down of your plant
- Lower production caused by a lower operating rate (e.g. smaller market demand)
As a consequence you are able to sell your over allocation of certificates (EUAs) on the market. Alternatively you can bank them for later use. Under banking is the accrual of unused emissions rights from the current year for future years.
In order to perform any internal reduction measures, two requirements need to be fulfilled - the cost-efficient potentials and the financial guarantees/reliabilities must exist. Reductions measures bring a company various benefits, however, there are also risks connected with introduction of reduction measures.
Click on the links below to find out more:
- Read background information about In-house Emission Reduction Projects
- View the good practices and other case studies in the SETatWork database
Further information about reducing the levels of emissions by your company can be found in the Reduce CO2 section of this tool:
You are in the position to sell project-based certificates out of CDM/JI projects, if:
- You are conducting your own CDM/JI project and can generate carbon credits out of it
- You are holder of carbon credits from CDM/JI projects (e.g. from funds or from a broker for the carbon market) and have no need to save them for compliance reason and can sell them on the market
View the report, State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2007 for further information.
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