After the failure of the United Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen the EU is under domestic pressure to … justify ambitious unilateral emissions reduction targets. Cost efficiency of EU-wide emission abatement becomes increasingly … important in order to sustain EU leadership in climate policy. We argue that administered EU targets for renewable energies are …

already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be … welfare effects across EU member states. For Germany, coal phaseout combined with unilateral cancellation of allowances is …

already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be … effects across EU member states. For Germany, coal phaseout combined with unilateral cancellation of allowances is found to be …