EU ETS — Year snapshot

EU ETS 2021

EU Emissions Trading System aggregate data for 2021: verified emissions, allocations, and surrendered units across all participating countries and sectors.

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Verified emissions

1364.94M

tCO₂e across all ETS sectors

Total allocated

573.82M

EUAs and EUAAs

Net position

+791.11M

system net short

Freely allocated

570.04M

Art. 10a / 10c allocations

Auctioned

3.79M

EUAs and EUAAs auctioned or sold

Surrendered

1360.21M

total units surrendered

Sector breakdown

SectorVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
Combustion846.23M107.97M+738.26M
Cement and lime139.01M115.91M+23.10M
Iron and steel123.76M139.90M-16.15M
Refineries101.23M75.34M+25.89M
Chemicals64.13M60.67M+3.46M
Glass and ceramics33.27M22.98M+10.29M
Pulp and paper23.72M23.45M+272.2k
Aluminium9.57M8.07M+1.50M
Hydrogen8.21M6.57M+1.64M
Non-ferrous metals7.17M6.54M+634.4k
Coke ovens5.55M3.56M+1.99M
Metal ore2.40M2.10M+301.0k
Other694.9k770.7k-75.9k
Carbon capture and storage460+46

Country breakdown

CountryVerified (tCO₂e)AllocatedGap
DE359.81M128.95M+230.86M
PL192.53M43.66M+148.88M
IT132.56M47.89M+84.67M
ES95.02M49.21M+45.81M
FR90.13M57.92M+32.21M
NL75.81M40.37M+35.44M
CZ58.04M15.37M+42.66M
BE42.17M29.63M+12.55M
GR33.99M11.67M+22.32M
RO32.70M14.68M+18.01M
AT30.32M20.82M+9.50M
BG29.05M6.75M+22.30M
NO23.73M13.10M+10.63M
SK20.91M11.61M+9.29M
FI20.65M13.83M+6.82M
IE20.61M8.04M+12.57M
SE19.53M18.46M+1.07M
HU18.84M9.16M+9.68M
PT16.69M9.22M+7.47M
DK11.88M5.29M+6.59M
HR7.11M3.66M+3.44M
EE6.86M2.57M+4.29M
LT5.99M4.59M+1.40M
SI5.68M1.46M+4.22M
CY4.32M1.23M+3.10M
XI3.11M0+3.11M
LV2.30M1.34M+958.7k
IS2.10M1.94M+151.7k
LU1.47M1.24M+231.8k
MT1.03M168.9k+862.5k
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