Category: Press releases
Sandbag’s Response to 2020 EU Climate Law Consultation
Launching Sandbag’s report on barriers to industrial decarbonisation
Businesses are clear that changes to the ETS benchmarks are needed – to facilitate low-carbon production methods, and eliminate perverse incentives to pollute.
NEW DATA: European ETS emissions rise for first time in 7 years
Today, the European Commission published the preliminary 2017 emissions under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Sandbag has analysed the data, and we explain in six graphics what you need to know.
Effort sharing 2.0
Our new report shows EU cooperation is needed to unlock cost-effective reductions
The Tipping Point for the EU Electricity Transition
Launching today in Brussels – The EU Power Sector Review 2017.
ESR deal: EU off-track for 2030 targets
Today, the Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement to reform the Effort Sharing Regulation
Out of touch ETS reform puts Member States in the spotlight
Last night’s trialogue agreement failed to restore the ETS as Europe’s flagship climate policy. The EU and Member States must now immediately look to how emissions can be cut rapidly before 2020 with other policies
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
Sandbag’s new report shows biomass subsidies are secretly funding coal
Subsidies to UK coal continue despite phase-out pledge
A new report released today shows that despite the UK has given more than £3 billion in subsidies to fossil-fuel based power generation through the Capacity Market auctions, as well as billions in other subsidies. The government must now follow France and...