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Emissions Trading Scheme

Energy White Paper: Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels
Energy White Paper: Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels

Long-awaited Energy White Paper set to be unleashed alongside plan to establish domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021

  • Energy
  • 14 December 2020
Political flip-flopping is not unique to carbon pricing: the UK needs stronger environmental protections across the board
Political flip-flopping is not unique to carbon pricing: the UK needs stronger environmental protections across the board

  • Carbon Trading
  • 04 November 2020
Successful UK carbon pricing reform needs new carbon taxes and a new net zero-aligned carbon market
Successful UK carbon pricing reform needs new carbon taxes and a new net zero-aligned carbon market

Dr Ben Caldecott argues the row currently raging between Treasury and BEIS over whether to introduce a new carbon tax or UK emissions trading scheme presents a false choice

  • Carbon Trading
  • 13 October 2020
If government is serious about net zero, it must implement a UK Emissions Trading System in 2021
If government is serious about net zero, it must implement a UK Emissions Trading System in 2021

The Chancellor is reportedly considering a hike in carbon prices to help raise revenues and accelerate the net zero transition, but as Dr. Danial Sturge and George Day argue, carbon pricing is complex and won't deliver net zero emissions on its own

  • BusinessGreen
  • 12 October 2020
'Very concerning': Crunch time for 'green Brexit' as trade deal deadline looms
'Very concerning': Crunch time for 'green Brexit' as trade deal deadline looms

Reports may have suggested that the UK and EU have reached agreement on incorporating the Paris Agreement into any trade deal, but with just 12 weeks to go until the Brexit transition period ends huge uncertainties and risks remain for the green economy...

  • Politics
  • 09 October 2020
'Ambitious, achievable and beneficial': EU Commission pushes for more stretching 2030 climate target
'Ambitious, achievable and beneficial': EU Commission pushes for more stretching 2030 climate target

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touts 55 per cent emissions reduction goal for 2030 and expanded the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in inaugural State of the Union address

  • Policy
  • 16 September 2020
Carbon pricing works: The largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt
Carbon pricing works: The largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt

  • Carbon Trading
  • 16 July 2020
EU carbon prices surge to 14-year high
EU carbon prices surge to 14-year high

CO2 price in EU emissions trading scheme breaches €30 per tonne-mark amid political push for 'green recovery'

  • Carbon Trading
  • 14 July 2020
How best to solve a problem like carbon pricing?
How best to solve a problem like carbon pricing?

A new OECD report weights up the pros and cons of a host of carbon pricing options, from cap and trade systems to flat fuel taxes

  • Carbon Trading
  • 22 June 2020
The UK wants the world's first net zero carbon market - but the plans don't yet add up
The UK wants the world's first net zero carbon market - but the plans don't yet add up

  • Policy
  • 22 June 2020
Reports: EU pushes back on UK emissions trading scheme plan
Reports: EU pushes back on UK emissions trading scheme plan

Reuters reports that proposals to link EU and UK ETS unlikely to gain Brussels approval without fresh safeguards

  • Carbon Trading
  • 10 June 2020
Government debuts plan for world's first net zero-aligned Emissions Trading Scheme
Government debuts plan for world's first net zero-aligned Emissions Trading Scheme

Response to consultation confirms government plans to press ahead with development of post-Brexit UK carbon trading scheme

  • Carbon Trading
  • 02 June 2020
Can a national carbon price be made fair and effective?
Can a national carbon price be made fair and effective?

Conventional fiscal thinking needs to be turned on its head to implement a fairer, more effective approach to net zero, according to the authors of a new report

  • Carbon Trading
  • 10 March 2020
Britain's Brexit negotiating plan: All the key green takeaways
Britain's Brexit negotiating plan: All the key green takeaways

With trade deal talks kicking-off on Monday BusinessGreen pulls together the UK's stance on a range of crucial climate and energy issues

  • Policy
  • 28 February 2020
'Prolonged uncertainty': Drax, Orsted and SSE call for post-Brexit carbon price clarity
'Prolonged uncertainty': Drax, Orsted and SSE call for post-Brexit carbon price clarity

Move echoes calls from green groups for 'robust carbon pricing' measures, as pressure grows for next government to bring forward UK coal power phase out date to 2022

  • Net Zero Now
  • 31 October 2019
Next Gen Carbon Markets
Next Gen Carbon Markets

Ben Caldecott of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme argues Brexit provides an opportunity to build 'the world's first ever net zero aligned emissions trading scheme'

  • Carbon Trading
  • 17 October 2019
'Firmly committed to carbon pricing': Government consults on post-Brexit emissions trading plans
'Firmly committed to carbon pricing': Government consults on post-Brexit emissions trading plans

Wide-ranging new consultation sets out series of proposals for carbon pricing mechanisms once the UK leaves the EU

  • Carbon Trading
  • 03 May 2019
British Steel seeking £100m government loan to pay EU carbon emissions bill
British Steel seeking £100m government loan to pay EU carbon emissions bill

Firm hit by EU's decision to suspend UK companies from accessing CO2 credits under emissions trading system until Brexit deal is ratified

  • Carbon Trading
  • 15 April 2019
Analysts hail €20 EU carbon price as 'tipping point' for wind and solar competitiveness
Analysts hail €20 EU carbon price as 'tipping point' for wind and solar competitiveness

Sandbag research suggests new onshore wind and solar projects can now compete with short term costs of generating power from existing coal and gas plants

  • Carbon Trading
  • 24 August 2018
Carbon markets back from the brink of collapse, says World Bank
Carbon markets back from the brink of collapse, says World Bank

Development of major new markets in China and reforms in Europe have provided a crucial boost as countries look at tools to cut carbon and meet their Paris climate targets

  • Carbon Trading
  • 23 May 2018
Carbon Tracker: Businesses could face continued EU carbon price surge
Carbon Tracker: Businesses could face continued EU carbon price surge

Major new study details how carbon prices across the bloc could double by 2021 if the EU moves to make emissions trading scheme compatible with the Paris Agreement

  • Policy
  • 26 April 2018
Report: Carbon pricing now covers up to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions
Report: Carbon pricing now covers up to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions

French think tank I4CE publishes Global Carbon Account 2018, confirming that adoption of carbon pricing policies is accelerating

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 23 April 2018
Beware the unconscious recoupling: It's time to double down on decarbonisation efforts
Beware the unconscious recoupling: It's time to double down on decarbonisation efforts

Recent emissions data reveals a worrying global trend re-tying emissions to economic growth

  • Climate change
  • 05 April 2018
Could Europe's €10 carbon price rise yet higher still?
Could Europe's €10 carbon price rise yet higher still?

Analysts cite recently-agreed reforms to EU Emissions Trading Scheme as a major driver behind recent carbon price surge, but can the cost of polluting keep rising?

  • Legislation
  • 15 February 2018
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