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China National Carbon Market Posts 619,430 Tonnes on 17 June; All Activity in 2025-Vintage Allowances

All trading on China’s national carbon emission allowance market on 17 June 2026 was concentrated in 2025-vintage allowances, according to a daily clearing and settlement bulletin published by tanpaifang.com (碳排放交易网), citing data from. Total daily volume reached 619,430 tonnes, generating a combined transaction value of 50,546,853 yuan at a volume-weighted average price of 81.6 yuan per tonne.

Of that session’s activity, 219,430 tonnes changed hands through listed-agreement trading and 400,000 tonnes through block-agreement trading; the one-way auction channel recorded no transactions. Allowances from all earlier compliance vintages — 2019–2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 — showed zero daily volume.

Since the national market’s launch, cumulative traded volume has reached 911,386,637 tonnes with a cumulative turnover of approximately 61.23 billion yuan. The 2019–2020 vintage remains the largest contributor to lifetime volume at around 287.8 million tonnes, followed by the 2022 vintage at roughly 198.8 million tonnes; the 2025 vintage has accumulated approximately 45.2 million tonnes to date.

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