Feb 21, 2023 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Industry, Steel
Mind the scrap: ignoring embedded emissions puts the CBAM at risk Sandbag’s submission to DG TAXUD’s Informal Expert Group on the Analytical Methods for the Monitoring, Reporting, Quantification and Verification of Embedded Emissions in Goods under the Scrope of the...
Jan 19, 2023 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Climate financing, EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), Industry
Lost opportunity of carbon market reform leaves a lot to fix in ancillary laws On 13 December 2022, the European Commission, Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism that will partly replace the free allocation...
Dec 15, 2022 | EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), Industry
A big win for a handful of powerful lobbies. A big loss for everyone else. This weekend, the European Commission, Parliament, and Council are set to finalise an important reform of the EU’s carbon market in the final round of their “trilogue” (trilogues are informal...
Dec 8, 2022 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)
An export solution for a faster CBAM phase-in A Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has been proposed by the European Commission as an alternative to the measures under the EU ETS that currently address the risk of carbon-intensive industries relocating to...
Dec 1, 2022 | Climate financing
Report | Spend Smarter: A bit of advice on climate innovation financing Download the report Currently, most EU-managed climate innovation subsidies go to innovation (through the Innovation Fund). The EU’s Innovation Fund, launched in 2020, is one of the world’s...
