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...

2015 European Power Sector Review

Jan 28, 2016

2015 saw a record increase in renewables generation, equal to 2.5% of European electricity demand. But despite this, power sector CO2 emissions are expected to fall by only about 0.5%

Amendments to the Market Stability Reserve proposal

Dec 29, 2015

Sandbag supports four key changes to improve the Commission’s Market Stability Reserve proposal. They are needed to avoid a price crash and the possible collapse of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. • Cancel backloaded allowances • Cancel unallocated free...