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Policy Submissions
25 Nov 2021

Analysis and suggested amendments to the European Commission’s revised proposal for the EU ETS for aviation

The European Commission’s proposed revision of the EU’s Emissions Trading System for aviation and implementation of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) lays out the groundwork for the welcome phasing out of free allocation. However, it fails to uphold, let alone strengthen, carbon pricing for the aviation sector by prioritising the risky and ineffective implementation of CORSIA over a full-scope inclusion of flights under the EU ETS.
Policy Submissions
17 Nov 2021

Principles for market-based measures to decarbonise international shipping

Submitted by the Clean Shipping Coalition (of which Carbon Market Watch is a member), this document summarises the key principles that any market-based measure (MBM) agreed at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) level needs to follow in order for it to be a fair and effective tool for contributing to the decarbonisation of international shipping.
Policy Submissions
23 Jun 2021

Carbon Market Watch’s reply to the TSVCM’s second public consultation

Summary It is urgent to scale up private sector finance for climate action, but the current state of the voluntary carbon market is not fit for purpose. The TSVCM should first focus on addressing the serious quality shortcomings before the market can be scaled up. In particular, the future governance body of the TSVCM will…
Policy Submissions
27 May 2021

Carbon Market Watch input to SBSTA on matters related to article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Views on enabling ambition in article 6 and transition of CDM activities to article 6.4 – June 2021 This submission is part of a series responding to the monthly calls from the SBSTA chair covering several aspects of Article 6. Carbon Market Watch’s overall perspective on Article 6 is accessible here. In previous submissions in…
Policy Submissions
11 May 2021

Carbon Market Watch input to SBSTA on matters related to article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Views on the rapid operationalisation of article 6 This submission is part of a series of submissions responding to the monthly calls from the SBSTA chair covering several aspects of article 6 The operationalisation of Article 6 should guarantee integrity, transparency and inclusiveness. Speed should not undermine the overall objective of contributing to the Paris…
Policy Submissions
19 Apr 2021

Carbon Market Watch input to SBSTA on matters related to article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Share of proceeds for adaptation and avoiding double use of outside NDC A6.4ERs Response to the call for submissions on the above-mentioned topics by the SBSTA chair Summary Financing for Adaptation/Share of Proceeds: A share of proceeds for adaptation should be levied on both 6.2 and 6.4 transactions The share of proceeds for adaptation should…
Policy Submissions
30 Mar 2021

Carbon Market Watch’s response to the public consultation on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive

Carbon Market Watch fully supports the comprehensive feedback provided by the European Environmental Bureau to the revision and welcomes the opportunity to give specific views on how the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) should be revised to support industrial decarbonisation in a complementary manner to the EU Emission Trading System.   While we support the general direction…
Policy Submissions
12 Feb 2021

Carbon Market Watch’s response to the public consultation on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) review

Summary The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) covers around 40% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions from more than 11,000 installations and airlines.  As part of the EU Green Deal implementation, the scheme will be revised starting in the summer of 2021. The revision is a crucial opportunity to ensure that the sectors covered…
Policy Submissions
18 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to the Consultation of the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets

Summary (updated 21 January 2021) Encouraging the private sector to support climate action in developing countries is a positive objective. Carbon markets could have a role in this if implemented carefully. Markets should be used to channel finance towards impactful projects while taking care to not abusively rely on the achieved emission reductions to justify…
Policy Submissions
3 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to Inception Impact Assessment on Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR)

We regret that the Commission did not include a policy option that would ensure the current climate policy architecture is maintained in order to raise the emission reductions achieved by the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and the LULUCF Regulation as three separate but mutually reinforcing policy instruments. The three options presented…

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