The Carbon Market Challenge
Abstract Carbon markets – both emissions trading systems and baseline-and-credit systems – are an increasingly common policy instrument being introduced to address climate change mitigation.…
Topics: Investments
The Social Climate Fund – Opportunities and Challenges for the buildings sector
SUMMARY: In July 2021, the European Commission published a proposal for a Social Climate Fund (SCF) to be established in parallel with the proposed extension…
A Fair and Solidarity-based EU Emissions Trading System for Buildings and Road Transport
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The new emissions trading system for buildings and road transport – the so-called ETS2 – proposed by the European Commission in the Fit…
Can Polluter Pays policies in the buildings and transport sectors be progressive?
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Two politically sensitive reforms The proposed Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) reform and extension of the Emissions Trading Scheme to buildings and road transport…
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…
For a fair and effective industrial climate transition
ABSTRACT: Europe’s industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair…
Commercialisation contracts: European support for low-carbon technology deployment
Executive summary Many of the technologies that can help the European Union become a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 have been shown to work but…
Pricing is just the icing
This report explores the role of carbon pricing in delivering rapid and deep building decarbonisation across the European Union. It makes the case for the…
Tightening EU ETS targets in line with the European Green Deal
Abstract The EU Green Deal calls for climate neutrality by 2050 and emission reductions of 50–55% in 2030 in comparison to 1990. Achieving these reductions…
A New Hope
SUMMARY: With total greenhouse gas emissions of around 700 million tonnes per year, resource and energy intensive industry is the third largest climate polluter in…
