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Funding climate-friendly soil management: Risks and key issues
Key issues to be considered in the design of funding instruments
This report summarises key aspects that should be accounted for in the design of policy instruments to support the implementation of climate-friendly soil management measures. It outlines overarching aspects that need to be considered…
Mitigation potentials for emissions of nitrous oxide from chemical industry in industrialised countries world-wide
Study for the Nitric Acid Climate Action Group (NACAG) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)
This study investigates mitigation potentials in industrialised countries for emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) from chemical industry, in particular from the production processes for nitric acid, adipic acid and…
Facilitating Socially Just Carbon Pricing in the EU
Identification of vulnerable groups, impacts of carbon pricing and compensation. Insights from the microsimulation model SEEK-EU
Presentation by Nelly Unger and Dr. Johanna Cludius, 8th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, 17.3.2023, Mannheim
Methanol as a marine fuel
Advantages and limitations
E‑Methanol is prominently discussed as a potential candidate to decarbonise deep-sea shipping. This study assesses whether the potential benefits and risks of e‑methanol are sufficiently reflected in the current discussion and whether…
Architectural change in accelerating transitions: Actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition
Despite growing research attention to accelerating transitions, the process of acceleration is not yet fully understood. It, for example, remains unclear whether or not acceleration requires deep changes in the architecture of…
Certification of Carbon Dioxide Removals
Evaluation of the Commission Proposal
On 30 November 2022, the Commission proposed an EU carbon removal certification framework (CRCF). The proposed framework could undermine the environmental integrity of EU climate policies. This risk is aggravated by the fact that the EU…
Can current EU climate policy reliably achieve climate neutrality by 2050?
Post-2030 crunch issues for the move to a net zero economy
The “Fit For 55” package represents a step towards a transformative EU climate policy architecture but is not yet fully capable of facilitating climate neutrality. Key issues to be resolved for post-2030 climate policy include the…
Potentials for “results-based payments” in the forest sector under the Paris Agreement
The forest sector contributes to high emissions worldwide through the loss of historically built-up carbon stocks, mainly from deforestation and forest degradation. The REDD+ approach aims at compensating developing countries for efforts…
Barriers to mitigating emissions from agriculture
Analysis of mitigation options, related barriers and recommendations for action
On the basis of a literature review, this paper outlines the main mitigation options for agricultural activities and the broader food system on the supply and the demand side. Economic, policy/legal barriers, technical barriers,…
The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative
Transparent Scores for Carbon Credit Quality - Expanded Scores Launch
Presentation by John Holler, Pedro Martins Barata und Dr. Lambert Schneider, Expanded Scores Launch, 31 January 2023
QU.A.L.ITY soil carbon removals?
Assessing the EU Framework for Carbon Removal Certification from a climate-friendly soil management perspective
This brief critically assesses the Commission’s 2022 proposal for Framework for Carbon Re-movals Certification as it applies to climate-friendly soil management. We introduce the pro-posal and then evaluate how its minimum certification…
The role of financial operators in the ETS market and the incidence of their activities in determining the allowances' price
Presentation by Johanna Cludius, Hannah Galster, Sean Healy, Viktoria Noka and Long Lam, ITRE Committe of the EP, 23.1.2023
Using International Carbon Credits to Achieve National Mitigation Targets of EU Member States – Options for Accounting under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Report prepared for the Swedish Energy Agency
The European Union (EU) has communicated in its nationally determined contribution (NDC) a target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% until 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Next to this EU-wide target, several EU member states…
Challenges for the accounting of emerging negative and zero/low emission technologies
Working Paper 3/2022
The present paper investigates challenges for the reporting and accounting of negative emission technologies (NETs) and zero or low emission technologies (ZLETs) in GHG emissions inventories, under the EU Directive on the promotion of…
Climate and energy scenario and projection comparison. Draft workflow & typology
We discuss the nature of scenario and scenario projection comparisons. We aim to contribute to increasing the value of such comparisons by drafting of a typology which structures these comparisons according to important elements that are…
Increasing public support for climate policy: Research needs, questions, and challenges around politically influenceable acceptability factors
Working Paper 2/2022
Ambitious climate policy needs a mix of instruments, from relatively soft and supportive pull measures to more intervening and demanding push measures. Given that the latter often receive relatively low public support, especially when…
ETC CM report 2022/05
Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2022
This report analyses recent, current and future emissions trends under the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It also analyses the balance between supply and demand of allowances on the market. This report is based on…
Land use as a sector for market mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
The land-use sector plays a critical role for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. This report discusses key environmental integrity challenges for using carbon market mechanisms to implement mitigation activities in the land-use…
Why burning primary woody biomass is worse than fossil fuels for climate
In its current form, the EU’s renewable energy directives encourage the use of primary woody biomass from forests as an energy source. However, the directive gives a completely wrong picture of the associated greenhouse gas emissions,…
Policy Brief: Emissions trading system for road transport and buildings in the policy mix for achieving climate neutrality in the EU.
An assessment of the overarching framework and specific provisions
Study for the Air Pollution and Climate Secretariat (AirClim) and the Life ETX Consortium
This policy brief provides an overview of the proposals for the ETS-2 covering road transport and buildings. The amendments and guidance by the…