EU ETS — Year snapshot

EU ETS 2018

EU Emissions Trading System aggregate data for 2018: verified emissions, allocations, and surrendered units across all participating countries and sectors.

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Verified emissions

1750.60M

tCO₂e across all ETS sectors

Total allocated

784.05M

EUAs and EUAAs

Net position

+966.56M

system net short

Freely allocated

779.31M

Art. 10a / 10c allocations

Auctioned

4.74M

EUAs and EUAAs auctioned or sold

Surrendered

1745.81M

total units surrendered

Sector breakdown

SectorVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
Combustion1170.95M216.78M+954.17M
Cement and lime153.27M147.99M+5.28M
Iron and steel135.61M161.19M-25.58M
Refineries118.19M92.55M+25.64M
Chemicals68.58M69.46M-884.2k
Glass and ceramics36.55M30.74M+5.81M
Pulp and paper26.29M28.59M-2.30M
Coke ovens11.10M9.79M+1.30M
Aluminium10.21M8.48M+1.73M
Hydrogen8.43M8.12M+302.7k
Non-ferrous metals7.56M7.26M+298.4k
Metal ore2.82M2.15M+672.4k
Other1.03M929.2k+103.9k
Carbon capture and storage11.2k5.1k+6.1k

Country breakdown

CountryVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
DE432.38M150.60M+281.77M
PL201.12M67.02M+134.10M
IT151.07M70.50M+80.57M
ES138.13M61.51M+76.62M
GB130.15M54.97M+75.18M
FR101.73M70.12M+31.60M
NL90.24M45.23M+45.01M
CZ67.43M27.92M+39.51M
GR48.26M14.81M+33.45M
BE45.71M32.90M+12.81M
RO40.59M21.42M+19.18M
BG31.29M12.01M+19.27M
AT29.63M20.04M+9.59M
IE27.96M10.41M+17.55M
PT27.80M11.38M+16.42M
FI27.34M17.57M+9.77M
NO26.68M17.07M+9.61M
SE22.86M23.49M-631.6k
HU22.38M10.64M+11.74M
SK22.21M13.77M+8.44M
DK15.50M8.19M+7.31M
EE13.89M3.31M+10.58M
HR7.62M4.55M+3.07M
SI6.59M1.78M+4.81M
LT6.02M5.46M+555.2k
CY4.61M2.26M+2.35M
LV3.01M1.82M+1.19M
XI2.98M2.5k+2.97M
IS2.68M1.76M+916.9k
LU1.73M1.31M+422.0k
MT1.04M205.1k+833.8k
LI3411.0k-707
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