ETS to ESR: Too much flexibility

One-off flexibility between the ETS and ESR would increase the total EU emission budget for 2021-2030 by about 200 million tonnes

The future of the EU ETS

Analysis on the long term future for the Emissions Trading System and carbon pricing in the EU – what will it take to avoid catastrophic climate change?

State of the EU ETS 2017

Detailed analysis of the Emissions Trading System in 2017 – Is the EU’s once flagship climate change policy working?

Aligning Europe’s Policies for Carbon, Efficiency, and Renewables

Since the earliest days of environmental policy there has been an ongoing and robust debate over the roles of pollution pricing on the one hand, and direct regulatory and governmental programs on the other hand, as tools to reduce pollution levels equitably and...

Why is a carbon-intensity threshold needed for Capacity Payments?

The European Commission has made it clear that it intends to limit capacity payments in Europe, and its most controversial proposal is to prevent capacity payments to high-carbon power plants; those which run on hard coal and lignite. The Commission has proposed to...