Sep 25, 2023 | Blog posts, Industry, Steel
Flat Steel in the Free Allocation Regulation Following the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) Directive in April 2023, the European Commission was mandated to review the Free Allocation Regulation, which establishes the methodology that calculates the...
Jun 27, 2023 | Blog posts, ETS, Reports and policy briefs
Supply and Demand in the EU ETS: Powering Through the Cap The reform of the EU’s carbon market and the free allocation regulation is now voted on. The deal was wrapped in December 2022 and was barely different from what the Commission had proposed nearly two years ago...
May 5, 2023 | Blog posts, ETS, General, Steel
Free allocation needs to incentivise circularity for the EU to reach net zero Open letter: Free allocation needs to incentivise circularity for the EU to reach net zero To: DG CLIMA – Mr Heiko Kunst Chair of the Expert Group on Climate Change Policy ...
Apr 18, 2023 | Industry, Reports and policy briefs, Steel
From Process to Product: A Fix to the Allocation of Free Emission Permits to Industry On 18 April 2023, Sandbag presented to the European Commission’s Expert Group on Climate Change Policy a proposal for reforming the granting of free emission permits to industry...
Dec 17, 2021 | Carbon Pricing, ETS, Industry, Reports and policy briefs
Why Free Allocation in the EU ETS Must Stop Urgently Free allocation (FA) under the EU ETS has been criticised for directing large amounts of taxpayers’ money towards incumbent polluting plants, turning the polluter-pays principle on its head and not being sustainable...
