Briefing on the Necessity and Effectiveness of Carbon Leakage Measures
SUMMARY: Free allocation forms an important exemption from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The system is advocated as an effective tool to protect…
Topics: Carbon leakage
Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade
Abstract We review the state of knowledge concerning international CO2 emission transfers associated particularly with trade in energy-intensive goods and concerns about carbon leakage arising…
ETSs with different measures for carbon leakage prevention: implications for linking
Abstract This report was prepared to inform the Carbon Market Policy Dialogue (CMPD) between the European Commission, as the regulator of the EU Emissions Trading…
Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies
Abstract Does unilateral climate change policy cause companies to shift the location of production, thereby creating carbon leakage? In this paper, we analyse the effect…
The EU’s Emissions Trading System: free allocation of allowances needed better targeting
Executive summary The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the main challenges of our times. The EU has established a series of climate…
The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on competitiveness and carbon leakage: the econometric evidence
ABSTRACT This paper carefully surveys the econometric literature that tests for competitiveness effects and related carbon leakage caused by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU…
The role of the EU ETS in increasing EU climate ambition
This study provides concrete and politically feasible proposals to strengthen the EU ETS and to achieve an enhanced target in line with the Paris Agreement.…
The impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on competitiveness and carbon leakage
Abstract Concerns about the potential negative effects on domestic firms’ international competitiveness and ensuing carbon leakage are the main obstacle to the unilateral use of…
Does the EU ETS Cause Carbon Leakage in European Manufacturing?
SUMMARY: Carbon leakage is an issue of major interest in both academic and policy debates about the effectiveness of unilateral climate policy addressing global externalities.…
Industry windfall profits from Europe’s carbon market 2008-2015
SUMMARY: This report interprets the findings of an updated CE Delft study that shows how energy-intensive companies in 20 European countries have massively profited from…
