EU ETS — Year snapshot

EU ETS 2020

EU Emissions Trading System aggregate data for 2020: verified emissions, allocations, and surrendered units across all participating countries and sectors.

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Verified emissions

1381.28M

tCO₂e across all ETS sectors

Total allocated

710.69M

EUAs and EUAAs

Net position

+670.59M

system net short

Freely allocated

704.87M

Art. 10a / 10c allocations

Auctioned

5.82M

EUAs and EUAAs auctioned or sold

Surrendered

1372.96M

total units surrendered

Sector breakdown

SectorVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
Combustion853.77M162.44M+691.34M
Cement and lime141.82M143.53M-1.71M
Iron and steel115.54M156.58M-41.04M
Refineries107.53M88.59M+18.93M
Chemicals66.41M66.88M-473.0k
Glass and ceramics34.18M29.66M+4.52M
Pulp and paper24.45M27.31M-2.86M
Coke ovens9.58M9.02M+566.8k
Aluminium9.46M8.01M+1.44M
Hydrogen8.80M8.42M+376.0k
Non-ferrous metals6.64M7.19M-551.0k
Metal ore2.26M2.07M+195.2k
Other834.6k985.7k-151.1k
Carbon capture and storage5.6k3.4k+2.2k

Country breakdown

CountryVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
DE324.69M141.05M+183.64M
PL172.16M43.79M+128.37M
IT127.72M66.13M+61.59M
GB102.79M48.62M+54.17M
ES92.46M62.71M+29.75M
FR84.01M66.79M+17.21M
NL75.39M43.31M+32.08M
CZ54.78M18.43M+36.35M
BE42.08M31.84M+10.23M
RO33.04M19.08M+13.96M
GR32.22M14.25M+17.97M
AT28.25M20.77M+7.47M
NO24.30M17.88M+6.42M
BG23.96M8.26M+15.70M
HU20.14M10.03M+10.11M
FI19.98M15.94M+4.04M
PT19.30M11.20M+8.10M
SK18.17M13.06M+5.11M
IE18.05M10.07M+7.98M
SE17.72M20.91M-3.18M
DK11.04M6.90M+4.14M
HR7.40M4.38M+3.01M
LT6.15M4.61M+1.53M
SI6.10M1.62M+4.48M
EE5.62M2.99M+2.63M
CY4.31M1.35M+2.96M
XI2.81M1.6k+2.81M
LV2.19M1.53M+663.2k
IS1.95M1.74M+214.7k
LU1.50M1.24M+262.2k
MT1.01M213.3k+791.7k
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