According to AleaSoft Forecasting, CO2 emission rights futures in the EEX market for the reference contract of December 2024, the upward trend started at the end of the previous week and continued until Tuesday, March 5. On that day, these futures registered their weekly maximum settlement price, €60.54/t.
According to data analyzed at AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, this was the only occasion when settlement prices exceeded €60/t in the last four weeks. In the rest of the sessions of the first week of March, prices declined. As a result, on Friday, March 8, the settlement price was €58.39/t, still 3.6% higher than the previous Friday’s price, AleaSoft Forecasting reports.