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NEW YORK | 14 June 2010 | Last year was a tumultuous one for the voluntary carbon markets, which saw transactions equivalent to 94 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions reductions, a 26% drop compared to 2008, according to the fourth annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market Report issued today by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The total value of traded credits declined 47% to US$387 million in 2009 and the average price of an emission reduction was $6.5/tCO2e.
Although the economic downturn reduced offset purchasing for corporate social responsibility, the report notes significant growth in the pre-compliance segment of the voluntary markets. These are speculative credits bought in anticipation of a cap-and-trade program in the US, which accounted for the greatest market share of supply (56%) and demand (49%) of voluntary carbon credits in 2009.
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