One of the crunch issues in the debate on the EU CBAM is the question of international cooperation on and around the CBAM. A prominent feature here are proposals of forming a carbon club or carbon alliance of countries implementing carbon pricing. In this scenario, a BCA could act as an incentive to other countries […]
The Green Bond Standard is the flagship financial instrument incorporating the EU Taxonomy. After the Council and the European Parliament adopted their positions, its status is entering a new phase, […]
Our Executive Director Andrei Marcu spoke on Panel 2 of the Annual IEA-IETA-EPRI GHG Emissions Trading Workshop in Paris. The panel concerned International Competitiveness and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM). […]
One of the most critically important issues concerning CBAM, yet to be resolved, is the question of how to compare the level of effort in third countries’ climate policies to […]
Our Executive Director Andrei Marcu attended the Carbon Forward Conference as a speaker. The Carbon Forward Conference is a conference on environmental markets where policy makers, analysts, industrials and many […]
The EU ETS is considered one of the cornerstones of the EU’s climate policy. While it has been faced by many issues, the ETS has increasingly proven to be ‘fit […]
The ETS has emerged as the backbone of the EU Climate Action and, especially in the last two years, as a crucial driver of decarbonisation. The Commission proposal to review […]
This workstream aims to bring together stakeholders and policymakers regularly to discuss substantive issues around hydrogen, informed by original intellectual input from ERCST. For more than 20 years, the market has developed multiple reporting tools in response to the demand from investors for identifying which investments and economic activities can be seen as “sustainable”. In […]
This meeting is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please contact bdegraeve@ercst.org. This Roundtable on Scenarios and Strategies for Carbon Competitiveness is to be held on Wednesday 26 October, 13.30-15.00 CEST, at the ERCST Offices (Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Brussels). The roundtable is co-convened by the European Roundtable on Climate Change and […]
This event was selected as a side event within the European Hydrogen week 2022. While the focus of the European Commission Hydrogen Strategy clearly lies on renewable hydrogen, the strategy acknowledges that in the short and medium term, other forms of low-carbon hydrogen are needed to rapidly reduce emissions from existing hydrogen production and support […]
One of the most critically important issues of CBAM, yet to be resolved, is the question of how to compare the level of effort in third countries’ climate policies to that of the EU, in order to determine crediting against the CBAM. The US, for example, has embarked on a suite of transformational climate-related initiatives […]
This panel was co-convened by the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) and the World Economic Forum. The use of carbon pricing instruments is growing worldwide. So too, is interest in border carbon adjustments (BCAs), to ease industry competitiveness concerns. This reflects a growing need to improve dialogue between trade and climate […]
