Businesses are clear that changes to the ETS benchmarks are needed – to facilitate low-carbon production methods, and eliminate perverse incentives to pollute.
Category: Press releases
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...
EUETS trialogues: The diet has begun, but there's plenty of fat left to burn
14th September 2017 ETS reform proposals, as discussions stand after yesterday’s trialogue, could leave the scheme still with a 1-2 billion tonne allowance surplus available to the market in 2025. In this scenario, the carbon price would remain unlikely to rise...
ESR plenary vote leaves little room for Member State innovation
For immediate release, Wednesday 14th June 2017 Contact boris@sandbag.org.uk for more information European Parliament vote on Effort Sharing Regulation leaves little room for effort to be shared between Member States, and fails to implement the Paris Agreement....