CORRECTED - POLL-TABLE-EU carbon emissions, price forecasts to 2020

Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:30pm GMT

 (Corrects SocGen's 2009 price forecast to 17 euros from 22.6. Adds footnote
on New Carbon Finance's emissions estimates)
 Feb 18 (Reuters) - Falling industrial output from the global economic
slowdown has caused European Union industrial carbon emissions to fall in 2008
and beyond, which will lead to lower demand for and cheaper price of the carbon
permits called EU Allowances (EUAs).
 Following is a table showing analysts' forecasts for total carbon dioxide
emissions by companies participating in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme in
selected years and averaged across the scheme's second phase from 2008-12 (P2)
and across the second and third phases from 2008-20 (P2+P3).
 In addition, the table shows surplus or shortage (long/short) estimates for
EUAs. For a related story click on [ID:nLH373929]
 
ANALYST                         2008     2009    2010     2012     P2      P2+3
                                    (billion tonnes of carbon dioxide)
Barcap             Emissions     2.1      2.1     2.1      2.3     2.1     2.3
                Long/(Short) (0.06)    0.00    0.00    (0.08)  (0.04)  (0.30)
Citi               Emissions     2.3      2.3     2.3      2.6     2.4     2.5
                Long/(Short)  0.10     0.07    0.04    (0.08)   0.05   (0.2)
Daiwa              Emissions     2.12     2.04    2.04     2.04    2.10    2.10
                Long/(Short)  0.04     0.12    0.12     0.11    0.10   (0.12)
Deutsche Bank      Emissions     2.1      2.0     2.0      2.1     2.1     2.1
                Long/(Short) (0.07)    0.06    0.05    (0.03)   0.01   (0.05)
IDEAcarbon         Emissions     2.26     2.20    2.19     2.24    2.22    N/A
                Long/(Short) (0.18)   (0.12)  (0.11)   (0.16)  (0.14)   N/A
New Carbon Finance Emissions     2.1      2.2     2.1      2.4     2.2     2.2
(3)                Long/(Short)  0.01    (0.06)  (0.04)   (0.12)  (0.05)  (0.12)
Point Carbon (1)   Emissions     2.2      2.1     2.1      2.2     2.1     N/A
                Long/(Short) (0.16)   (0.06)  (0.04)   (0.06)  (0.05)   N/A
Sagacarbon         Emissions     2.1      2.1     2.1      2.3     2.2     N/A
                Long/Short    0.05     0.10    0.05    (0.10)   0.06    N/A
SocGen             Emissions     2.13     2.06    2.13     2.18    2.13    2.12
               Long/(Short) (0.05)    0.02   (0.06)   (0.14)  (0.07)  (0.22)
UBS                Emissions     2.2      2.2     2.2      2.2     2.2     2.3
                Long/(Short) (0.15)   (0.14)  (0.14)   (0.10)  (0.13)  (0.24)
 
PRICE ESTIMATES (in euros per tonne)     2009             2012
Barcap                                     9              20.5
Citi                                      12              25
Daiwa                                      8              12
Deutsche Bank                             30 (2)          N/A
IDEAcarbon                               N/A              N/A
New Carbon Finance                       N/A              N/A
Point Carbon                              12              35
Sagacarbon                                10              26
SocGen                                    17              20
UBS                                      N/A              35
 
 (1) Point Carbon's figures include EU-27 + Norway
 (2) Deutsche Bank's EUA price forecast represents the fundamental fair value
based on a rational and efficient market, but the analyst expects 2009 prices to
trade below 10 euros a tonne.
 (3) New Carbon Finance's figures include EU-27, Norway and Liechtenstein as
well as aviation from 2012.
 (Compiled by Nina Chestney and Michael Szabo, editing by Anthony Barker)

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