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Shi Weijun
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18 January 2023
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China’s emissions trading scheme lacks bite

Overly generous allowance allocations and low prices blunt impact of world’s largest cap-and-trade scheme in its first 18 months

China’s cap-and-trade scheme has so far struggled to make an impact on emissions from domestic thermal power generators—the only sector it covers—because of low prices and overly generous allowance allocations. China’s emissions trading system (ETS) went live in July 2021 after years of delays and six regional pilots in cities including Beijing and Shanghai. It covers 2,162 thermal power plants that each emit at least 26,000t of CO₂/yr. The scheme, overseen by the state-owned Shanghai Environmental and Energy Exchange (SEEE), covers c.4.5bn t/yr of CO₂ emissions, making it the biggest in the world by volume. But transaction value in its first year of operation reached just RMB8.5bn ($1.22bn)

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