Emissions tradingEnergy efficiencyClimate policies
  • Saving emissions trading from irrelevance
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 29 June 2012
    Saving emissions trading from irrelevance
  • Energy efficiency: Made in Denmark, exportable to the rest of the EU?
    Insight by Stephen Tindale, 11 April 2012
    Energy efficiency
  • EU climate policies without an international framework
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 21 October 2011
    EU climate policies without an international framework
  • Making choices over China: EU-China co-operation on energy and climate
    Policy brief by Nick Mabey, 02 November 2009

    The EU needs China to move rapidly towards a low carbon economy. Even with strong leadership at the highest level in China, this will not be easy, given the country's scale, diversity and development needs.

  • How to meet the EU's 2020 renewables target
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 01 September 2009

    The EU countries have promised to get 20 per cent of their energy from renewables by 2020. The EU can meet this target but only if governments take action now to boost investment in the full range of renewable energies.

  • Carbon price collapse threatens the EU's climate agenda
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 April 2009

    The EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) works by capping the output of carbon dioxide and then distributing allowances to emit the gas to large energy users.

  • The EU's climate agenda hangs in the balance
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 December 2008

    The EU has entered a severe economic downturn. Not only does Europe face the deepest recession since the 1970s, but the recovery when it does arrive will be weak and patchy.

  • Europe can afford to curb greenhouse gases
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 02 June 2008

    In March 2007 the EU pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020, from 1990 levels. But as EU governments and the Commission work on the policies needed to achieve this goal, opposition is mounting, particularly towards the Commission’s proposals for reforming the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS).

  • How to make EU emissions trading a success
    Report by Simon Tilford, 01 May 2008

    The European Union has set ambitious targets to limit greenhouse gases. But it will not be able to meet these targets without an effective market for trading carbon emissions.

  • Liberalizar para protegerse mejor
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Cinco Dias, 07 November 2007

    El respaldo a los planes para liberalizar el mercado del gas es la mejormanera de aliviar el temor al creciente papel de Gazprom en Europa, según la autora, que se sumaal Debate Abiertosobre los límites de laUE a la inversión extranjera. Ensu opinión, separar las redes evitaría el abuso de compañías integradas verticalmente.
  • Why the UK needs to back Commission energy plans
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 12 January 2007

    The reactions to the Commission’s energy package – widely leaked before its official publication date on January 10th – were predictable.