In July 2012, the European Commission issued an invitation for public consultation to review the ‘auctioning time profile' for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme” in order to collect views from stakeholders and experts in the field of the EU carbon market on a draft for a future amendment of...

A Cumulative Cost Assessment (CCA) aims to identify, assess and, where possible, quantify the cumulative cost generated by selected areas of EU legislation on a given industrial sector. It is retrospective and strictly centred on EU rules. The CCA is all about regulatory costs. Hence, it does...

A Cumulative Cost Assessment (CCA) aims to identify, assess and, where possible, quantify the cumulative cost generated by selected areas of EU legislation on a given industrial sector. It is retrospective and strictly centred on EU rules. The CCA is all about regulatory costs. Hence, it does...

An important element of the comprehensive suite of climate and environmental policies advanced under the “European Green Deal” (EGD) is the “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” (CBAM). CBAM is a policy safeguard against emissions leakage, that is, the relocation of emitting activities...

This report summarises the presentations and discussions during the workshop on the ETS Market Stability Reserve (MSR), held on the 5th November 2014. The aim of the workshop was to allow an exchange of views between MEPs, the European Commission, stakeholders from energy and industry sectors...

This report summarises the presentations and discussions during the workshop on the ETS Market Stability Reserve (MSR), held on the 5th November 2014. The aim of the workshop was to allow an exchange of views between MEPs, the European Commission, stakeholders from energy and industry sectors...

From the earliest announcement of the European Green Deal, the current EU political cycle has been defined by an unprecedented acceleration in the scale and pace of climate policy. Under difficult conditions that sometimes tested the ability to engage stakeholders, including various external...

This CEPS Special Report builds on the first deliverable of the project entitled "Carbon leakage: Options for the EU". It identifies carbon costs, and the ability to pass through carbon costs, as the main risk factors that could lead from asymmetrical carbon policies to carbon leakage. It also...