Different Schemes, Different Shares

What this document is

For the same biomethane guarantees of origin, the average certificate price covered 27% of production cost in the UK, 55% in Germany and 83% in Denmark. This report goes to the primary sources in each country to find where that difference comes from. The answer is that the obligation schemes count different things — volume in the UK, a reduction percentage in Germany, one fuel pair in Korea — and Denmark is mid-transition from subsidy to tender. Where the scheme differs, what the certificate has to carry differs with it.

Who reads it

• Shipper ESG and procurement
• Carriers and logistics providers
• Carbon consultancies
• Policy and regulatory affairs

About this report

Not a translation. We read the primary sources ourselves and set out what they say. Quotations are short and carry their source and page number, and no figure appears that we could not confirm in the original.

Rights in the sources

Rights in the originals rest with their publishers.

Basis

This report is Logistics Tech Standard's analysis of documents published by national governments, parliaments and regulators. It is not a translation.

What is not here

No figures from secondary coverage are used — projections of further Korean rate increases, German intermediate percentages, and end dates of support for individual Danish plants are absent because no primary source confirmed them.

How we quote

Quotations are short and carry their source and date. The comparison addresses differences in structure and does not rank the schemes.

Who wrote this report, and why

Logistics Tech Standard (LTS) works on the carbon standards used in freight. This is not a translation — we researched and wrote it. Putting an international standard to work on real freight runs into places the standard itself does not describe.

Only what we could confirm is here; where we could not confirm something, we say so. Every source is named in the text.