Carbon markets play a key role in Australia’s efforts to reduce emissions. The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has prepared this report to support the effective operation of Australia’s carbon markets.

This report consolidates information across the three national carbon markets that CER administers for the December Quarter 2022 (October 2022 to December 2022), providing information on supply and demand trends, and opportunities to inform market decisions.

In accordance with section 105 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 this report covers the operations of the large-scale and small-scale schemes for the 2021 calendar year for presentation to Parliament.

Detailed information and metrics are available in the following sections:

  • Highlights
  • Executive summary
  • Chapter 2 State of total renewables
  • Chapter 2.1 Large-scale generation certificates
  • Chapter 2.2 Small-scale technology certificates.