In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European … Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its three main targets: lower greenhouse gas emissions, higher renewable share in …

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 …

already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be … welfare effects across EU member states. For Germany, coal phaseout combined with unilateral cancellation of allowances is …

is invested in the EU. The largest single sector investments for the EU countries are required in the pulp & paper …