Broadening the carbon removal debate beyond the ETS
The role of carbon dioxide and its possible integration in the ETS is emerging as a key, but challenging, consideration. We must tread carefully.
The role of carbon dioxide and its possible integration in the ETS is emerging as a key, but challenging, consideration. We must tread carefully.
The European Commission hopes capitalism can help solve the biodiversity crisis. Britain might have the answer.
The elephant in the room is that reducing ETS allowances further will push up CO2 prices, generating significant transition risks.
Documents seen by Euractiv suggest Jรธrgensen will also try to make amends with nuclear advocates.
Experts warn that recent and hefty investments risk becoming almost worthless because stringent ETS rules will swallow all the profits.
We arenโt reducing global emissions, just depriving ourselves of jobs, profits, raw material sovereignty and, therefore, security.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today (13 September) called for a new financial tool to reward nature protection, which takes inspiration from the EU’s carbon trading scheme.
Agreeing on one-off common debt issuance was hardly a Hamiltonian moment โ but substantially increasing the blocโs own resources may just bring us closer to one.
German industry umbrella association BDI expects only โmarginalโ growth effects from a package adopted by the German government on Wednesday (17 July), which includes tax for foreign workers, bureaucracy reduction, and initiatives at EU level.
Industry should not rely on negative emissions to compensate for the ending of new EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) allowances from 2039, experts have told Euractiv.
The surcharge goes into effect for tickets booked from June 26 and departing from European countries.
The EUโs CO2 tariff continues to provoke basic operational questions within the business community, even though companies are already subject to its formal reporting obligations.
While many economists have long advocated introducing a ‘climate dividend’ to avoid social tensions caused by carbon pricing, a group around Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz questioned this approach in a paper released on Monday (17 June) in Nature C…
Germany’s Free Democrats say their backing for the next EU top executive hinges on weakening EU climate laws โย a clear shot at Ursula von der Leyen.
Germany is likely to miss its 2030 greenhouse gas targets, government climate advisors said on Monday, contradicting the climate minister’s prediction in March and calling for new policy measures.
The U.K. and EU are planning separate systems to tax carbon-heavy imports, prompting familiar fears about the impact in Northern Ireland.
Brussels called the 15.5 percent reduction in 2023 a “record.”
Key EU lawmakers have asked the European Commission to present a package to boost the climate-friendly transformation of Europeโs industrial sector while expressing concerns about social stability once climate measures start to bite.
The EUโs upcoming CO2 management strategy will propose sequestration of up to 650 million tonnes per annum by 2050 and kick off a controversial debate about the future of the blocโs emissions trading scheme.
The EUโs Emission Trading System (ETS) is a cornerstone of EU climate policy, working to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making the biggest polluters pay. While the recent revision of the ETS directive tries to make the tool more effective, progress ri…
As EU representatives get ready to head to Dubai for COP28, they must prepare to be confronted with the fallout of Europe’s most controversial climate policy abroad, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
The EU’s Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering โฌ800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation. By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annual…
Growing evidence about potential raw materials shortages, insufficient EU battery production capacity, increased BEV repair costs, and large infrastructure and grid needs reinforce calls to vote for a technology-inclusive approach.
A recent analysis suggests that the EUโs carbon market for road transport and buildings (ETS 2) may see prices rise far above the โฌ45 promised by the EU, provoking fears that protests against fuel price hikes will follow.
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism enters a trial phase on Sunday.
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The establishment of a European Central Carbon Bank could prove especially beneficial to regulate prices on the EU carbon market. If placed in Central-Eastern Europe, it could be a strategically important factor in achieving Europeโs climate goals, arg…
Reforms undertaken as part of the European Green Deal, including the recent update of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), are helping to accelerate the EU’s decarbonisation, write Gabriel Papeians and Stefan Feuchtinger.
As it becomes increasingly clear that the EU’s industrial policy lacks public money to back it up, the European Parliament has set its sights on revenues from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for the development and deployment of green technologies.