Jul 3, 2011
Three years into Europe’s Emissions Trading System second trading period – how is it performing? This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the environmental outlook of the ETS, covering permit allocations, oversupply, companies use of offsets and...
Jun 3, 2011
Thanks to overly optimistic forecasts of growth and fierce lobbying by heavy industry the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has failed to incentivise cost effective reductions in emissions and instead enabled some companies to profit from the scheme. This report looks...
May 3, 2011
On the 16th May 2011 the European Commission released the final emissions trading data for 2010, giving the most up-to-date picture yet of how the system is functioning. Included in this data is the total use of international offset credits, from both Clean...
May 1, 2011
NGOs welcome the European Commission’s moves to increase the security of the EU ETS. Bolstering security measures to ensure an effective trading system is of paramount importance. Increased security measures, however, should not come at the detriment of transparency...
Dec 3, 2010
To date Italy has perceived its obligations under both the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading System purely as a punitive cost to be shouldered rather than an opportunity for development. Not only has this made Italy nervous of European efforts to increase...
