A post by Albert Ferrari Simone Borghesi, Director of FSR Climate and Secretary General of the Policy Outreach Committee (POC) of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), chaired with Jos Delbeke the Plenary Policy Session at the 25th EAERE annual conference. The Read More …
A post by Michael Pahle (PIK) & Simon Quemin (LSE) The future of the EU ETS and its capacity to deliver on the more ambitious climate targets formulated in the EU Green Deal will crucially hinge on what becomes of Read More …
A post by Albert Ferrari President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement was followed by many States, cities and companies across the US pledging to increase their climate ambition to compensate for his unilateralism. California, being amongst Read More …
A post by Giulio Galdi In a previous post, we argued that low allowance prices reduce compliance costs for brown power plants and thus boost their profitability. In addition, low allowance prices may push firms to prefer relatively more carbon-intensive Read More …
A post by Isabella Alloisio The Innovation Fund is a key funding instrument to deliver the EU’s economy-wide commitments (EU NDC) under the Paris Agreement, as well as to comply with the ambitious long-term objectives of the EU Green Deal to Read More …
A post by Ilaria Conti, Head of FSR Gas The COVID-19 pandemic that the whole world is experiencing is unprecedented and so are the consequences that the economy will have to face in the crisis aftermath. But what we’re also witnessing Read More …
A post by Simone Borghesi The pandemic is posing serious challenges to all our lives and research is inevitably affected with lots of events cancelled or postponed. This obviously applies also to our LIFE DICET project in 2020. But on Read More …
A post by Giulio Galdi In the last post on this blog, Simone Borghesi discussed the consequences of the COVID19 crisis, beyond the immediate reduction in worldwide pollution. Among them, he hinted at the challenge now facing all Emissions Trading Read More …
A post by Simone Borghesi The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on economic activities worldwide. This has both direct and indirect effects on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. On the one hand, the current pandemic has a Read More …
A post by Isabella Alloisio The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s largest ETS, covering about 5 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and 45 percent of EU emissions. Starting 2021, the linear reduction factor Read More …
