The matrix: sustainable reporting requirements

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 […]

External Event – COP27: Policy measures to promote a clean energy future

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 […]

ERCST at COP 27 – CBAM

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, […]

External Event: Interaction of Voluntary Carbon Market and Carbon Pricing Policies 

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. […]

External Event: Frontiers in Carbon Pricing

This event is organised by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. It took place at COP27 at the Pavilion of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).  Some sixty jurisdictions worldwide – including both national and subnational governments – have adopted carbon-pricing policies, largely cap-and-trade systems or carbon taxes. Very few of these policies, however, match […]

CCUS Industrial Partnership: what next?

Participants in the CCUS Forum in Oslo, hosted on 27-28 October, discussed several issues related to a strategic vision for CCUS, CO2 infrastructure, and CCUS industrial partnership. The Forum endorsed two documents prepared by the working groups on the CCUS Vision Strategy and CO2 Infrastructure. However, the industrial partnership concept still requires further reflection. Stakeholders […]

Post-COP27: In conversation with Jacob Werksman

At COP26 in Glasgow, Parties finalised and adopted the Article 6 Rulebook and so the Paris Rulebook, exactly 6 years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Now, they are faced with the new challenge of implementing such decisions. However, many issues are still on the table to be discussed in Sharm el-Sheikh. J. Werksman, […]