ETS Revision for Phase IV. The EU ETS under trilogues

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 the EU ETS Directive aims at aligning the emissions pathway of the ETS sectors with the new EU climate targets. Throughout the next decade, the […]

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 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 […]

ERCST x WEF: Scenarios and Strategies for Carbon Competitiveness

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 […]

The principle of technological neutrality and hydrogen incentives

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]