Unforced Error: Assessing the climate actions of the men’s tennis tour
The jetsetting ideal of the men’s tennis tour is helping to push the climate towards break(ing) point. So if offsetting isn’t the fix that the ATP is hoping for what is?
‘Human Stories’ series demonstrates promising yet unfulfilled potential of EU Emissions Trading System
Examples of climate funding being put to good use in Greece, Portugal and Belgium suggest how revenue from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) can be better used to enhance climate action. This potential can be further boosted by eliminating the freebies awarded to the wealthiest polluters.
Over 100 organisations and scientists demand separation of EU’s 2040 climate targets
the European Commission has received an open letter signed by 96 academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate emissions reductions, land-based sequestration and permanent carbon removals in the EU’s post-2030 climate framework.
A logo and a name
Carbon Market Watch colleagues met on 11 December to brainstorm a name and a logo to accentuate our Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund supported carbon dioxide removals (CDR) campaign.
12 Days of ETSMas
Merry ETSmas!
The EU through its Emissions Trading System giftwraps free pollution permits to 30 grossly wealthy energy production and heavy industry companies causing 25% of the bloc’s emissions.
Over the 12 days of ETSMas we counted down the EU’s luckiest polluters.
Emissions Aristocracy: EU carbon market’s one-percenters spew out lion’s share of emissions
Emissions Aristocracy of just 30 companies spews out half of the greenhouse gases covered by the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), representing a quarter of the EU’s carbon footprint, a CMW report uncovers.
Creating an alternative carbon removals policy architecture for the EU
The European Union is starting the long process towards establishing the bloc’s post-2030 climate policy framework and Carbon Market Watch wants to make sure that slashing emissions is the absolute priority.
Carbon Market Watch embarks on an industrious away day
To savour the real-world implications of our climate work, the Carbon Market Watch team visited an industrial zone seeking to decarbonise and a sustainable co-housing project.
New reports reveal why carbon removals and temporary storage hamper effective climate action
Carbon Market Watch (CMW) has delivered a strong verdict on the role of carbon removals and temporary carbon storage in the hierarchy of climate action in a pair of complementary reports released on 25 September 2023. A study of policy frameworks around the world shows that policymakers are getting it wrong.
