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The European Hydrogen Bank: a recipe for competitive distortion
EU Criteria for Green Hydrogen: How They Could Increase Relience on Thermal Power and Hijack the Energy Transition
On February 13th 2023, the European Commission released two pieces of legislation to provide criteria defining renewable hydrogen products. The so-called Delegated Acts matter because they set out how to comply with other regulations under review which will force ships, aircraft and heavy industry to use a minimum content requirement of the fuel, such as the Renewable Energy Directive, REFuelEU Aviation and FuelEU Maritime.
Mind the Scrap: Ignoring Embedded Emissions Puts the CBAM at Risk
Lost opportunity of carbon market reform leaves a lot to fix in ancillary laws
Sandbag warns that EU carbon market reforms raise ambition but fail to fix structural flaws: free allocation is phased out too slowly, CBAM coverage remains partial, benchmarks still reward polluting processes, and circularity is sidelined-risking inefficiency, distortions, and missed decarbonisation opportunities
What’s new in the ETS trilogues? Benchmark revisions (or not!)
An Export Solution for a Faster CBAM Phase-in
Spend Smarter: A bit of advice on climate innovation financing
Innovation’s Black Friday
ETS and CBAM should not discourage circularity
Precursors: the products that will eat away at the CBAM’s effectiveness
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