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Balancing effort across the EU in the next phase of the Effort Sharing Decision could save more than 2 billion tonnes of CO2

Aug 29, 2016 | Reports

Next week the Commission should publish a new legislative proposal on the EU Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) for 2021-2030. Today Sandbag reveals that a rebalancing of emission reduction effort around the EU under the ESD could incentivise an additional reduction of 2...
Europe’s new climate proposal delivers less than business-as-usual emission cuts

Europe’s new climate proposal delivers less than business-as-usual emission cuts

Jul 20, 2016 | Briefs

Today, the European Commission has released a new proposal for cutting emissions in transport, agriculture and buildings sectors by 2030, and suggests how this effort should be shared between Member States. This proposal introduces a number of dangerous loopholes that...
Bend it, don’t Break it: How can we win the political debate for a higher 2030 ESD target?

Bend it, don’t Break it: How can we win the political debate for a higher 2030 ESD target?

Jul 18, 2016 | Briefs

This week the Commission should publish its new legislative proposal on the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) – the policy driving emission reductions for the remaining approximately 60% of EU greenhouse gas emissions, not covered under the Emissions Trading System (ETS)....
Flexibilities now: How to get more for less from the EU Effort Sharing Decision?

Flexibilities now: How to get more for less from the EU Effort Sharing Decision?

Jul 5, 2016 | Briefs, Climate financing

DG CLIMA, European Commission’s (EC) service for climate change mitigation, will publish the proposal of changes to the EU Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) around 20 July. We expect that the proposal has now entered into the ‘interservice consultation’ where it is...

Stabilising the Market Stability Reserve

Jun 16, 2016 | EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)

Sandbag publishes a new briefing on Stabilising the Market Stability Reserve Sandbag has published analysis of the impact of Phase 4 EU ETS reforms on the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) to accompany its latest briefing – ‘Aligning the surplus with...
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