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 […]
This side event was organised in cooperation with Business Europe & Advocates for International Development. This event took place at Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center, Sharm El Sheikh. The event was broadcasted through the UNFCCC Youtube Channel. Following the success at COP26, Art 6 rulebook has further progressed towards implementation, but some of the Art […]
ERCST's Executive Director, Andrei Marcu, spoke at this panel organised by the World Nuclear Association. There has been a wave of national initiatives in countries around the world to promote clean energy investment. From policies that support existing nuclear power, to production and investment tax credits for new clean electricity technologies, to the promotion of […]
This event took place at COP27 in the Turkey Pavilion. In order to address the risk of carbon leakage from the EU ETS, in July 2021 the European Commission has put forward a proposal for a Carbon Border Adjust Mechanism (CBAM). Over the last fifteen months this proposal has gone through the EU legislative process, […]
This event was organised by the Turkish Government. It took place at COP27 at the Turkey Pavilion. ERCST's Executive Director Andrei Marcu moderated this panel on carbon markets and carbon pricing policies. He also gave a presentation on the interactions of different carbon pricing instruments, such as CORSIA, ETS, EU CBAM and voluntary carbon markets. […]
