Oct 3, 2010
This report follows on from Sandbag’s ‘International Offsets and the EU 2009’ report released in July 2010. That report focused specifically on the use of CDM credits generated in uncapped countries, which make up the overwhelming majority of offsets used for...
Sep 13, 2010
This report critically evaluates the perfomance and prospects of the EU ETS as it currently stands. It explores how Phase 2 caps have been weakend by recession, and how slack from Phase 2 – in the form of unused offset credits – is likely to defer...
Sep 3, 2010
This report revisits the companies holding the largest surpluses in 2008 to see how they have fared since the recession. New analyses explores potential intra-European competitiveness distortions introduced by these surpluses, and investigates how Phase III caps might...
Sep 1, 2010
The UNFCCC separates CDM and joint implementation (JI) project credits into 15 sectoral scope types. These sectoral scopes broadly differentiate the different project types, however, they do not always provide the most useful definitions, for example renewable and...
Jul 3, 2010
Offsetting is clearly being used very successfully by many of the participants in the EU trading system. It is serving to reduce prices of compliance and delivering substantial volumes of finance (circa €860 m per annum) to countries outside of Europe. We wish to use...
