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[This blog is adapted from an article published in the Huffington Post on 11.12.2015] Europe is an old economy. We're industrialised, highly capitalised and largely privatised. To achieve change we need laws and policies in a way that other major economies, like...

The Sandbag team is expanding. Can you convince EU policymakers to fix the EU carbon market? To phase-out coal? To drastically cut industrial CO2 emissions with radical process change and CCS? Then this could be the job for you. You'll need to be...

Sandbag has prepared the following statement in reaction to the Commission’s revision of the EU ETS Directive published earlier today. download PDF

Last night, the German government announced their new plan to deal with reducing CO2 emissions from lignite.  Their plan is… to pay lignite power stations.   The burden of responsibility has been turned on its head: the previous “climate...

Last night, the German government announced their new plan to deal with reducing CO2 emissions from lignite.  Their plan is… to pay lignite power stations.   The burden of responsibility has been turned on its head: the previous “climate levy” proposal was clearly...

As MEPs prepare for a key vote on repairing Europe’s EU Emissions Trading Scheme next Tuesday, a new report released today finds that German manufacturing sectors have accrued spare carbon allowances equivalent to the annual emissions of Austria, while just ten...

The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the flagship policy covering half of the EU’s carbon emissions, could turn intended restrictions on pollution into a trap that commits Europe to increasing carbon emissions for much of the next decade, unless changes are swiftly...

The UN has recently confirmed that it will delay issuing offset credits to three already approved industrial gas projects, pending a review. This is a sign that they are taking the allegations that some projects are gaming the system seriously and could signal the...