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EU emissions trading scheme on course to make tiny savings, says report

Damian Carrington, The Guardian - Published under license by

10 September 2010 • 4 min read

Campaign group Sandbag calls for tighter caps on greenhouse gas emissions in Europe

The entire five-year period of the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) that ends in 2012 is set to deliver carbon savings of less than a third of one per cent of total emissions, according...

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