Quarterly Carbon Market Report data workbook

Aggregate carbon market statistics from the CER's Quarterly Carbon Market Report, including ACCU issuances, LGC creations, STC volumes, unit surrenders, and Safeguard Mechanism developments.

Usage

cer_qcmr(quarter = "latest", sheet = "Contents")

Source

Clean Energy Regulator, Quarterly Carbon Market Reports: https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data/quarterly-carbon-market-reports. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Arguments

quarter: Character. Quarter identifier in "YYYYqN" form (e.g. "2025q4" for the December 2025 quarter). Defaults to "latest", which resolves to the most recent release.
sheet: Sheet name or integer index. The CER QCMR workbook contains a Contents sheet (default) plus one sheet per figure (e.g. "Figure 1.1", "Figure 3.14"). Pass a figure name to extract that figure's data.

Value

A cer_tbl with the requested sheet's contents.

References

Clean Energy Regulator (quarterly). Quarterly Carbon Market Report. Methodology notes accompany each release.

Clean Energy Regulator (2024). Carbon Market Indicators: methodology and data dictionary.

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(cer.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
  # Contents sheet lists all available figures
  toc <- cer_qcmr("latest")
  head(toc)
  # Fetch a specific figure
  fig <- cer_qcmr("latest", sheet = "Figure 1.1")
})
options(op)
# }