May newsletter editorial: Revamping carbon market can help wean EU off fossil fuels

by Sabine FrankEU carbon market, The EU Green Deal and Climate LawPosted on Comments are Disabled

Slovakia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Sulík has a surreal idea for emptying Vladimir Putin’s war chest. “We should lower energy prices… We should suspend CO2 trading, because that drives up energy prices,” he opined in a 5 May interview on the EU’s oil embargo on Russia with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.  Moreover, the centre-right politician …

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March newsletter editorial: The Ukraine tragedy and the heavy price of war

by Sabine FrankCorporate climate responsibility, Decarbonising European industry, EU carbon market, Human rights in climate action, The EU Green Deal and Climate LawPosted on Comments are Disabled

The horror playing out in Ukraine disturbs and distresses the Carbon Market Watch team. We have discussed it amongst ourselves. We have expressed our solidarity with those who are affected. We share their anger at the Russian regime’s unwarranted aggression, senseless bloodshed and escalating destruction. We have joined Ukrainian activists in asking for the international …

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