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Scrapping free allowances for heavy industry by 2030 would force producers to innovate more quickly and would not make European industry less competitive.

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The current proposal envisions the full phase-out of free allowances in 2036, ten years after the CBAM’s full implementation.

A gradually increasing price floor, below which the price of emissions permits cannot fall, would provide investors with certainty of the direction of carbon prices.

These reforms go in the right direction, but should be stricter and implemented more rapidly:.

The Commission has also proposed that all ETS revenues that member-states receive should go towards climate investment. Free permits will be gradually phased out, while a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will be introduced to level the playing field between the carbon price faced by EU and foreign producers.

As part of this package, the European Commission has proposed a lower cap on emissions, to bring the ETS in line with tougher climate targets, and tighter conditions under which industrial plants can claim free permits.

The EU’s Fit for 55 climate policy package aims to change this, strengthening the role of carbon pricing in the transition towards carbon neutrality by 2050.

Carbon emissions from road transport and building heating, so far excluded from the ETS, are priced unevenly across the EU, with energy and carbon taxes varying across countries.

However, to maintain the competitiveness of European industry, many emissions permits are handed out for free, which has so far dimmed the incentives for industries to cut CO 2. The EU’s existing ETS establishes a carbon price for heavy industry, electricity generation and intra-EU flights.

European carbon credits how to#

This policy brief discusses how to make a higher and more comprehensive EU carbon price both effective and politically feasible. The economic recovery from the pandemic has led to an energy crunch, and war in Ukraine has contributed to increasing energy prices and complicated the politics of carbon pricing. Before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU had planned to expand its emissions trading system (EU ETS) and strengthen the carbon price it generates.