Launching Sandbag’s report on barriers to industrial decarbonisation
Businesses are clear that changes to the ETS benchmarks are needed – to facilitate low-carbon production methods, and eliminate perverse incentives to pollute.
NEW DATA: European ETS emissions rise for first time in 7 years
Today, the European Commission published the preliminary 2017 emissions under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Sandbag has analysed the data, and we explain in six graphics what you need to know.
Climate of Cooperation: Why countries need to cooperate to cut ESR emissions cost-effectively
Climate of Cooperation: Why countries need to cooperate to cut ESR emissions cost-effectively Sandbag’s new report shows that agreed reform of the Effort Sharing Regulation would only require very limited emissions cuts beyond current efforts, and lets the EU miss its...Effort sharing 2.0
Our new report shows EU cooperation is needed to unlock cost-effective reductions
Better safe than sorry: regional carbon pricing as a safety-net policy
Sandbag spoke in favour of a regional carbon price at the French government event last week
ETS reform completed – But alignment with the Paris Agreement will take more work
Today, the EU Council has finally endorsed the ETS reform, the final stage before it becomes law – but already, further reform is being discussed.
ESR deal: EU off-track for 2030 targets
Today, the Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement to reform the Effort Sharing Regulation
Minding the gap requires building bridges
The moment when 196 countries signed on to this Agreement and the ratification threshold was met in 2016, the Requiem for inappropriately low carbon prices started playing in the background.
China’s national ETS launches today: Is it an early Christmas present for the climate?
Zhang Yong hailed the dawn of China’s carbon market today
ESR reform: Millions of tonnes of CO2 at stake
Two new briefings show how small changes to the Effort Sharing Regulation – currently being debated by the European Institutions – could slow EU greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions are at stake.