During COP25 the Climate Friendly Materials Platform (CFM) hosted an event on innovative policy instruments to transform the basic material sector to net climate neutrality.
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The new EU Commission is taking office and at the same time Mistra Carbon Exit is publishing a policy brief concerning the EU emissions trading system, the EU ETS.
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När den nya EU kommissionen nu är på plats kan EU:s klimatarbete starta på allvar. Med den nya ordföranden Ursula von der Layen kommer klimat och miljö få en betydligt mer framträdande roll än tidigare.
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This is the second annual report from Mistra Carbon Exit. Download the full report to read more about the programmes achievements, our researchers, meet our PhD candidates and much more. We are very proud that the results from the programme has started to make an impact on the discussions among our stakeholders.
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The EU ETS has just been reformed, so can we sit back and watch it work? Unfortunately, not. The time of cheap greenhouse gas emission reductions is over.
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Based on my experience from the first week, I would say that a few clear themes have emerged from the talks: finance, the role of non-state actors, an enhanced focus on industry, partnerships and collaboration, a socially just transition, as well as moving from ambition to action.
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I’m on my way to Sacramento, the capital of California. The grass is brown and the air is yellowish and hazy due to fires. In a week from now the fires will spread rapidly, consume homes and vineyards in the wine districts north of San Francisco and kill more than 20 people. The fires fuel the debate of climate change and strengthen the engagement from people and politicians in California. One may think that with Trump as United States’ president climate action has halted in the US. But not here in California.
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The brief outlines different perspectives on the past performance of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) in terms of its allowance price (Section 1), analyses how the recent reform responded to related challenges (Section 2), and considers the case for introducing a carbon price floor in the EU ETS (Section 3). The main part of the brief (Section 4) identifies five myths in the debate of an EU ETS price floor and critically confronts them. Section 5 concludes by discussing potential entry points for introducing a carbon price floor in the context of the upcoming EU climate policy process.
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This paper by Mistra Carbon Exit research fellows, Dallas Burtraw, RFF, Lars Zetterberg, IVL and Amelia Keyes, RFF, reviews the interaction of cap and trade with other (companion) air quality and sectoral policies and discusses mechanisms that address inefficiencies, with lessons for the EU.
Read MoreIn this work, we introduce a new, functionality‐based, categorization of variation management strategies: shifting (eg, batteries), absorbing (eg, power‐to‐gas), and complementing (dispatchable generation, including reservoir hydropower) strategies.
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This is the first annual report from Mistra Carbon Exit. The year of 2017 has been a great
startup year for the program, setting the framework and establishing our work.
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I denna rapport presenteras nio utvalda budskap som vi tror är centrala för omställningen mot ett fossilfritt Sverige. Dessa budskap utgör också en kunskapsbas för vårt fortsatta arbete i programmet...
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