ERCST – European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

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European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

May 21, 2025

2025 State of the EU ETS Report

May 13, 2025

International credits in EU CC policy

April 25, 2025

ERCST Feedback to the EU Commission public Consultation on the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF)

UPCOMING EVENTS

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage in the EU: Challenges and Opportunities
June 3 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Launch Event: Extension of the CBAM Scope
June 12 @ 15:00 - 17:00
European Hydrogen Bank – Second Auction and Next Steps (Public Event)
June 19 @ 10:30 - 12:30
Launch Event – Future of emissions trading in the EU: CDRs
June 26 @ 14:00 - 16:00

RECENT EVENTS

2025 State of the EU ETS Report – Launch Event (Public Event)
May 21 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Stakeholder Roundtable – Future of Emissions Trading in the EU: Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDRs)
May 12 @ 10:30 - 12:30
Stakeholder Consultation – Leveraging CO₂ in the Circular Carbon Economy
May 8 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Stakeholder Consultation – Advancing BECCS in the EU: a Policy Perspective
April 10 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Expert consultation: Extension of the CBAM scope
April 8 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Launch Event – Future of Emissions Trading in the EU: Price Signal and Competitiveness (Public Event)
March 27 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Launch Event: Solutions for exports of EU CBAM-covered goods
March 25 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Focus Group – Circular Carbon Economy: CO₂ as a Valuable Resource
March 12 @ 15:00 - 16:30

RECORDINGS

The annual “State of the EU ETS” Report aims to provide an independent contribution to the policy debate, which is needed to ensure that the EU ETS is “fit for purpose”. The Report is intended as a “snapshot”, providing policymakers and stakeholders with an overview of how the EU ETS is doing by April of each year, based on the previous year's data. This event will cover the 2025 Report. This year’s edition reflects the track record of the ETS last year, its recent developments, and the role the ETS is expected to play in the longer term.

This is the launch event of the ERCST report on the ‘Price signal & competitiveness’, under the framework of the ‘Future of the Emissions Trading in the EU’ project.

The “Future of Emissions Trading System in the EU” is a process that ERCST is putting in place to provide original analytical insights, pinpoint challenges, and propose solutions for the evolution of the Emissions Trading System in the EU with the participation in this important debate of EU institutions and EU stakeholders. In the framework of this sub-workstream, ERCST has been organising thematic events along the year focused on key issues for the Emission Trading in the EU. This is the third of seven reports ERCST will produce in the framework of the Future of the Emission Trading in the EU project.

The CBAM’s transitional period is underway, however several issues remain unresolved ahead of the definitive period and numerous delegated and implementing legislations, along with reviews are due before the end of the transitional period. Altogether, 2025 will be an important year for the CBAM, with decisions on principal design parameters through several reviews and implementing and delegated acts scheduled throughout the year.

ERCST’s ‘Border Carbon Adjustments in the EU – Phase VI’ workstream will start off 2025 by revisiting the topic of exports.

At this event the ERCST launch and present a paper that identifies solutions for addressing the carbon leakage risk associated with EU-produced goods subject to the CBAM that are destined for export to third countries. Building on ERCST’s work in Phase III on a WTO-aligned export solution, and in Phase V on the broader implications of the CBAM for export-oriented sectors, the paper proposes an updated policy mechanism to mitigate the competitiveness impacts on exporters.

LATEST NEWS

April 9, 2025

ERCST in action: Andrei Marcu at the Centre for Eastern Studies event “War and Transition: Energy Interests of Central and Eastern European States” – Gallery

April 8, 2025

ERCST Comment – EU considering international CO2 credits to meet new climate goal, sources say

April 3, 2025

ERCST Comment – The EU NDC: A critical moment for Climate Policy and the Economic Future of the EU

April 3, 2025

Experts advised on how to maintain the effectiveness of the EU ETS | EcoPolitic

The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) is an independent think-tank, registered under belgium law, working on European and Global climate change policies.

ERCST is committed to the goals and principles of the Paris Agreement and works towards promoting a just, inclusive and sustainable global transition.

ERCST has always been careful to ensure an inclusive working environment and to be attentive to gender diversity and to the plurality of voices represented in its initiatives. When this is not reflected in one of our publications or events, it is due to the unavailability of the consulted experts to participate, to choices of organizations on their representation or specific representation in the respective organization.