Policing carbon markets
Carbon markets have emerged in recent decades as one of the most important tools for curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, but they present a number of novel enforcement challenges when compared
EU-ETS
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State of the Low-Carbon Energy Union: Assessing the EU’s progress towards its 2030 and 2050 climate objectives
Rather than examining aggregate emissions trends, this study delves deep into the dynamics affecting each sector of the EU energy system. It examines the structural changes taking place in power production,
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Trends and projections in Europe 2016: tracking progress towards Europe's climate and energy targets
The 2016 edition of the annual EEA report, Trends and projections in Europe, provides an updated assessment of the progress of the EU and European countries towards their climate mitigation and energy
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Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2016: the EU Emissions Trading System in numbers
The report provides an analysis of past, present and future emissions trends under the EU ETS, based on the latest data and information available from the European Commission and Member States. It also
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Carbon pricing: a key instrument to facilitate low carbon transition
This paper discusses how carbon pricing can facilitate a low-carbon transition, or a further net zero carbon transition, responding to the Paris Agreement. There is a strong synergy between carbon pricing
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Analysis of key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU between 1990 and 2014
This paper briefly analyses the major factors that accounted for decreased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions excluding land use, land use changes and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU-28. It consists of two parts:
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Demand for offsetting and insetting in the EU Emissions Trading System
International carbon offsetting can help reduce compliance costs in emissions trading schemes and at the same time support carbon mitigation projects in developing countries. A surprising observation from
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Fossil fuel subsidies from Europe’s carbon market
From 2013 onwards, emission allowances are no longer granted for free to power companies under the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). These companies instead have to buy all of their allowances through
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Emissions trading in practice: a handbook on design and implementation
As the world moves on from the climate agreement negotiated in Paris, attention is turning from the identification of emissions reduction trajectories—in the form of Nationally Determined Contributions
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Sustainable hydropower and carbon finance
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has helped finance more than 2000 hydropower projects, representing the largest source of OECD bilateral funding for hydropower. Europe, through its European Union
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Calculation of additional profits of sectors and firms from the EU ETS
This study has calculated the additional profits that sectors and companies have made from the EU ETS from 2008 to 2014, distinguishing between three types of profits: Profits from over allocation of free