To help achieve the EU’s 55% target for 2030 and 0 in 2050, the EU has determined that the EU Emissions Trading System for industry, energy, air and maritime shipping (ETS-1) will get a little brother as of 2028: ETS-2. This includes CO2 emissions from the combustion of fuels in traffic and for heating and…
Category: CO2-marktanalyse
Updates and the future of carbon trading
Last week I joined for Anthesis the 24th annual GHG Trading Workshop by IEA-IETA-EPRI. I gave a presentation on the future of the carbon market, particularly EU #ETS after 2040. I highlighted how the EU ETS can get a #negative emissions target, gradually introducing carbon #removals from EU and global projects. Stephanie La Hoz Theuer of ICAP…
IPCC: “Net-Zero” approach helps meet temperature goal
Eventually all global emissions must be zero but we can win time with a “net” approach if we do a proper climate accounting. The report of Working Group III of the IPCC says “meeting the long-term temperature objective in the Paris Agreement implies a rapid turn to an accelerating decline of greenhouse gas emissions towards…
Six tips to make the climate summit to a success
The annual climate summit, after a year of Corona postponement, is happening in Glasgow as CoP26, the first two weeks of November. I will attend the CoP for Climate Neutral Group. And I give hereby my six tips for the summit summarized in a few words: you get more ambition with more flexibility. My tips…
Making an EU Carbon Border Tax easier with a Carbon Club
My six tips for a European Carbon Border Tax. The President of the new European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has asked Commissioner for Trade Phil Hogan to levy a CO2 tax on imports to the EU: “to contribute to the design and introduction of the Carbon Border Tax, working closely with the Commissioner for…