With the new rules of the EU ETS, involving cancellation of allowances, cumulative emissions are no longer fixed but …

According to the Phase IV (2021-2030) rules of the EU ETS, the total amount of emissions permits allocated to firms is …

recently revised EU ETS Directive, we then combine a country’s phase-out policy with canceling the permits it formerly used to …

Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …

We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund the EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute … implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower carbon price, i.e. laxer climate policy at the EU level, than before the … reform. For high carbon countries the opposite is true. As a result, EU climate policy becomes less ambitious and less …