WHAT IT IS
Germany's greenhouse-gas reduction quota
The THG-Quote (Treibhausgasminderungsquote) obliges fuel suppliers placing petrol and diesel on the German market to cut the greenhouse-gas intensity of their fuels by a rising annual percentage. Suppliers that over-comply can sell their surplus; those short of target buy — creating one of Europe's largest tradable transport-decarbonisation markets. Cleanworld brokers across it.
HOW THE MARKET WORKS
Obligation, compliance and trade
Obligated parties
Companies placing fossil petrol and diesel on the German market carry the GHG-reduction obligation.
A rising target
The required GHG-intensity reduction increases year on year under the BImSchG, tightening demand.
Compliance options
Biofuels, biomethane, renewable electricity for EVs and green hydrogen / RFNBOs all count towards the quota.
A traded market
Over-fulfilled parties sell their quota to under-fulfilled ones — the THG-Quote trade we broker.
BEYOND GERMANY
Part of a European quota landscape
Germany's THG-Quote sits alongside equivalent national transport-fuel obligations. We are active across the connected European compliance markets.
RTFO / RTFC (United Kingdom)
The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation and its tradable certificates.
HBE (Netherlands)
Hernieuwbare Brandstofeenheden — the Dutch renewable-fuel units.
RED III (EU)
The directive setting the transport-decarbonisation targets behind every national scheme.
