The study evaluates the impacts of EU climate policy on the emission allowance price, electricity prices, the competitiveness of industry and macroeconomic developments in the third EU emission trading period 2013–2020. The economic impacts of climate policy on Finland are compared to the...

Prices for emission allowances in Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) have remained low for many years. This has given rise to controversies on whether there is a need for a fundamental reform of the ETS. Potential reform proposals include the introduction of a price floor for certificates...

An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of public intervention for green innovations is the complementarity between policy instruments, indicating the need for an adequate policy mix of instruments rather than a focus on individual instruments. The evidence provides...

Europe's industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place...

This paper discusses the introduction of new own resources to finance the EU budget. Currently roughly two thirds of the budget is financed from GNI-based own resources, which are essentially contributions made by the member states out of national tax revenues. While GNI resources are...

This Policy Brief takes stock of the global and European trade and carbon-emission effects from CBAM. It argues that the current design of the CBAM is not good enough and, ultimately, that there are risks that it will dent the positive effects on global carbon emissions that come from a lower...

Claudia Gibis, Jan Weiß und Christoph Kühleis, Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle im Umweltbundesamt, diskutieren den Vorschlag der EU-Kommission, eine sogenannte Marktstabilitätsreserve in den Europäischen Emissionshandel einzuführen.

Die dritte Handelsperiode des Europäischen Emissionshandelssystems (EU-ETS) zur Vermeidung von Treibhausgasemissionen startete im Jahr 2013 und läuft noch bis einschließlich 2020. Zieht man mach Ablauf der Halbzeit der Handelsperiode eine erste Bilanz, lässt sich feststellen, dass das...