Given that there is as yet no hard evidence of carbon leakage caused by indirect costs passed through by power companies, Carbon Market Watch cannot support using taxpayer money to protect the industry from an unproven “carbon leakage risk”. Indirect cost compensation, coupled with free allocation of emission allowances, undermines the polluter pays principle and…
Civil Society Organisations’ recommendations for the new EU Industrial Strategy – Making the new European industrial strategy an enabler of a just transition to a carbon-neutral, circular and zero-pollution economy. Europe faces a climate and environmental crisis. Scientists, experts, the political classes and civil society all agree that we urgently need to decarbonise all sectors…
Dear Council Members, The decisions you make next month on emissions unit and emissions unit program eligibility for ICAO’S Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) – and the transparency with which you make these – put the credibility of aviation’s climate efforts in the global spotlight. Aviation is facing unprecedented challenges, with…
Carbon Market Watch welcomes the European Commission initiative to develop a New Circular Economy Action Plan. The Roadmap of this initiative is presented in view of the European Green Deal and the contribution of the EU’s industry to achieve a climate-neutral continent by 2050. It is therefore crucial that the Circular Economy action plan to…
Dear respected colleague, Ahead of COP25, Carbon Market Watch is pleased to share our recommendations and recent publications. Strong rules to avoid double-counting of emission reductions There is a significant risk that emission reductions under the Paris Agreement could be counted towards two or more climate commitments which would water down efforts to stop the…
Letter from the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council Members and the Technical Advisory Body (TAB) regarding the transparency of the TAB’s offset programme eligibility assessment. Dear Members of the ICAO Council, Dear Members of the Technical Advisory Body, The decision on which offset programmes should be recognised as…
With a proposed budget of 100 billion euro from 2021 to 2027, the Horizon Europe framework programme represents the largest collaborative multinational research and innovation (R&I) investment in Europe. A Strategic Plan will put forward the targeted impacts for the investment in research and innovation and the priorities for the first four years of implementation…
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) invited greenhouse gas programmes (i.e. standards) to apply for assessment against the CORSIA Emissions Unit Criteria (EUC) by the Technical Advisory Body of ICAO. 14 organisations responded to the call. The public was invited to submit comments on the responses to the call for applications, including regarding their alignment…
Carbon Market Watch would like to draw attention to the following shortcomings of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED): -The environmental impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are not addressed by the IED, which is a major gap in the Directive aiming to prevent and control pollution arising from industrial activities. Article 9(1) of the IED…
In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), a global scheme with the objective of achieving “carbon-neutral growth” after 2020, relying on the use of carbon offsets and sustainable aviation fuel. In this information note to the Parties of the Aarhus Convention, the International…
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