London, June 9, 2026 - Fastmarkets, a leading cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA), today announced the launch of two new daily CBAM price assessments. These are designed to address one of the biggest challenges facing companies exposed to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): the lack of real-time visibility into carbon costs at the point of trade.

EU producers need to act to strategically position their free allowance war chests, as the market faces impending volatility and policy reforms.

Fastmarkets has launched two daily Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) certificate prices on Thursday June 4.

Cookstove project developers were facing an increasingly problematic trade-off between price and credit volumes while they targeted either the Core Carbon Principles of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) or Phase 1 of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The Brazil carbon market is being built to do more than cut emissions. The government wants to turn low-carbon steel and aluminium into a trade advantage and position Brazilian green metals as the SBCE phases in.

European buyers were still seeking Ukrainian steel despite the recent rollout of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, but constraints on production during wartime were preventing mills from fulfilling the demand, the industry said.

A growing number of steelmakers across Latin America have received sustainability certifications and environmental recognitions in recent months, reflecting how the region is increasingly positioning itself within the global transition toward lower-emissions steelmaking – although questions still remain surrounding how commercially scalable and economically sustainable this transition will become.

As CBAM and the EU ETS reshape cost structures across Europe’s automotive supply chains, OEMs are under growing pressure to protect margins while navigating opaque carbon pass-through.

Front-loading cleared roughly €820 million in CBAM liabilities before the definitive phase began. The pattern is unlikely to be a one-off as free allowances step down toward zero in 2034.

The European Commission's draft CBAM carbon price legislation, published May 13, sets out how carbon costs paid abroad will count toward EU import obligations. It also caps Article 6 credit usage at 10% of emissions and applies retrospectively from January 2026.