Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that covers emitters from industry and the energy sector representing 40 percent of the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions is the biggest implementation worldwide of a cap-and-trade scheme. The EU ETS has been the core instrument of European climate policy since...

A concept for an "Energy Innovation Scoreboard" was developed that presents an overview on energy research indicators and that serves as an input for the "IEA Expert Group on R&D Priority Setting and Evaluation". The study uses the concept of the Innovation Union Scoreboard as well as previous...