by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Carbon Pricing, ESR, Europe, International, Offsetting
Last week Ola Mirowicz, Sandbag’s Climate Policy Adviser, spoke at the Polish Economic Forum in Krynica about the opportunities for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to address the challenge of the Energiewende. The Economic Forum is a major economic and...
by admin | Jul 18, 2016 | Carbon Pricing, ESR, Europe
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...
by admin | Jul 5, 2016 | ESR, Europe
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’...
by admin | May 27, 2016 | ESR, Europe
Sandbag’s new report shows the EU’s biggest climate instrument – the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD)[1] – is a lumbering dinosaur, suffering many of the same problems as the better known Emissions Trading System (ETS). Like the ETS, a huge surplus...
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