Recipe for greenwashing

The report calls for a phased reduction in international credit use within K-ETS, increased focus on domestic emission reductions, and alignment with best practices from systems like the EU ETS. Strengthening the environmental integrity of K-ETS is essential to achieving South Korea’s climate goals and ensuring the global credibility of the country’s climate action by putting in place and implementing robust and effective policies.

A clean industrial revolution in Europe

Carbon Market Watch presents a unique, first-of-its-kind report pairing EU ETS account holders (and their installations) to their parent companies, assessing the highest level of private ownership possible. This report presents an overview of which companies have the biggest carbon footprint in the EU, who received the most free pollution permits, and which sectors are not delivering on their decarbonisation promises.

Archery

Divide targets to conquer the climate crisis

To facilitate a transatlantic exchange of views, Carbon Market Watch brought together experts from the USA, the UK, Germany and the EU to track progress towards implementing separate climate targets and carbon removals policies. Carbon Market Watch recently organised a webinar aimed at delving deeper into how key trailblazing countries, states and regions on both …

U-turn

U-turn on EU’s Emissions Trading System for road transport and buildings carries huge environmental, social and economic price tag

A small number of politicians are pushing to reverse course on the Emissions Trading System for road transport and buildings (ETS2). However, such a u-turn would fuel the climate crisis and cost European society and the economy dearly. Member states have all the tools to roll out ETS2 fairly and effectively but they need to act now.