The European Commission’s unambitious proposed climate target for 2040 risks becoming riddled with loopholes and delaying urgent climate action. This in-depth analysis explains how and why.
The EU’s Emissions Trading System is essential to meeting the European Union’s 2040 climate target. Watering the EU ETS down with international carbon credits or carbon removals will prove fatal, concludes a study commissioned by Carbon Market Watch. Under pressure from industry and pro-business
The decision by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) to withhold its stamp of approval from the most problematic cookstove methodologies and to approve a good methodology is a welcome step in the right direction but more needs to be done.
After receiving billions in state aid and free pollution subsidies to decarbonise its production, steel producer ArcerlorMittal put its clean steel projects on hold.
The CO2ol Down coalition took its campaign to the heart of EU policymaking on Thursday to present its ready-to-go plans on the role of carbon removals in the EU climate framework towards 2040 and beyond.
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out the principles for carbon markets. At COP29, governments must fix all the outstanding issues so as to ensure that Article 6 advances, rather than sets back, the climate agenda. This detailed guide explains what is at
At the COP29 climate conference in Baku, negotiators need to fix Article 6 carbon markets but, most importantly, they need to fix the world’s failure to slash emissions.
Heavily polluting industries are on course to receive the lion’s share of Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenue earmarked for Flanders between now and 2030, depriving the government of desperately needed resources to finance decarbonisation and a just transition. The Flemish government must change
To deal with the persistently high carbon footprint of farming, the European Commission is considering the possibility of establishing an EU Emissions Trading System for agriculture. But is such a scheme necessary and how should it be designed?
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