Options for Reforming the EU ETS

Options for Reforming the EU ETS

Apr 1, 2016

This briefing is prepared to coincide with the meeting of Energy and Environment Ministers in Horsens Denmark. It reviews some of the main options for ETS reform, exploring measures both to fix the supply of allowances in the short term and also to establish an...
Honouring Paris

Honouring Paris

Mar 28, 2016

In a new communication responding to the Paris Climate agreement, the European Commission has signalled that it does not intend to increase the level of its climate ambition until after 2030. This applies the weakest possible reading of the ambition ratchet agreed in...
Sharing the Burden

Sharing the Burden

Mar 28, 2016

How greater climate ambition is in the interest of Central and Eastern Europe CEE countries are to receive ~1 billion allowances to fund energy sector modernisation during 2021-2030. With every €1/t increase in the ETS carbon price, the value of these funds to CEE...

Improving the 5th UK carbon budget

Feb 28, 2016

This briefing represents Sandbag’s official written evidence to the Energy and Climate Change parliamentary select committee inquiry on the 5th carbon budget of the UK Climate Change Act.* It details our five key recommendations to improve the 5th carbon budget...