Carbon price floor to save ETS - Guest Commentary

The functioning of the European Union (EU) emission trading system (ETS) is under debate. Although the ETS guarantees emission reductions by 2020, the current low prices fuel doubts about whether it will remain a key policy instrument of EU climate policy. Such doubts increase investment uncertainty, which is likely to have a negative impact on investments in low-carbon technologies, which are needed to achieve a low-carbon economy by 2050.

In the Pointcarbon.com Carbon Market Europe of 10 May, Martijn Verdonk and Corjan Brink of PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) put the case for an EU carbon price floor

Authors

Martijn Verdonk, Corjan Brink

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Publication title
Carbon price floor to save ETS - Guest Commentary
Publication date
10 May 2013
Publication type
Publicatie
Magazine
Pointcarbon.com
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1145