TREE NEWS update: China’s national carbon emissions trading market has traded a cumulative 961 million tonnes worth 65.699 billion yuan as of end-August, the 2026 China Carbon Market Conference in Wuhan heard on Tuesday. The National Carbon Market Development Report (2026) released at the event showed 2025 volume reached a record 235 million tonnes, up 24.36% year on year, across 243 trading days, with turnover of 14.63 billion yuan.
China’s national carbon market hits record 235M tonnes traded in 2025
AI take
The record volume and rising year-on-year turnover signal that China's compliance carbon market is maturing into a genuinely liquid pricing venue, not just a symbolic policy instrument. That matters for emitters covered by the scheme, for the financial firms building carbon-linked products around it, and for RWA and tokenization projects eyeing carbon credits as an on-chain asset class. The open question is whether liquidity keeps deepening as more sectors are phased in, and whether pricing power follows volume.
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