All pages with keywords: EU ETS

Is a Market Stability Reserve likely to improve the functioning of the EU ETS? Evidence from a model comparison exercise
Report explores what market and regulatory failures could inhibit the functioning of the EU ETS and result in deviations from the efficient abatement pathway. read more »

Submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change on ‘Linking Emissions Trading Systems’
Paper looks at what are the main challenges to linking emissions trading systems and what are the consequences of failing to address them adequately. read more »

FP7 Entracte project
The second ENTRACTE newsletter reflects the contribution of the GRI/LSE research project for a functioning climate policy taking into account a careful design. It gives an overview about recent research … read more »

EU ETS, free allocations and activity level thresholds, the devil lies in the details
Energy intensive and trade exposed sectors receive a proportion of their allowances (EUAs) for the European Union emissions trading system (EU ETS) free of charge to prevent carbon … read more »

The effects and side‐effects of the EU emissions trading scheme
As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO2 emissions, they turn to the European Union’s experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. read more »

Carbon control and competitiveness post 2020: the cement report
Cement industry top management now has little confidence in the EU ETS; structural reform is needed to help investment in energy efficiency and innovation, and reduce energy costs and carbon … read more »

Sectors under scrutiny: evaluation of indicators to assess the risk of carbon leakage in the UK and Germany
One of the central debates surrounding the design of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is the approach to address carbon leakage concerns. read more »

System responsiveness and the European Union Emissions Trading System
This paper argues in favour of a reform of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) that makes the system more responsive to unexpected price shocks. The paper proposed … read more »

Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without non-regulated companies
This paper examines the investment strategies of compliance companies in irreversible abatement technologies and the environmental achievements of the system in an inter-temporal cap-and-trade market using laboratory experiments. The … read more »


