CBAM

EU’s end-of-year energy breakthroughs will have big climate implications

After months of tense negotiations, the EU has agreed a mechanism to cap the wholesale price of natural gas. The…

Can the G7’s “climate club” fill in the gaps to deliver on Paris?

When it comes to climate, the G7 leaders had big talk but little action at their summit in Germany at…

Opinion: This is the EU Parliament’s last chance to raise carbon market ambition

A new deal to reform the EU’s carbon market, struck late at night on 14 June between the centre-right European…

Opinion: EU Parliament’s CBAM spat could delay a carbon border tax by years

It was a raucous day in Strasbourg, France, on 8 June when three EU climate proposals – establishing an EU…

EU’s carbon border tax moving (too?) fast

If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be the attitude of some of the EU’s trade partners…

Weekly data: EU’s CBAM to impact Russia, China and the UK the most

The biggest question around the EU’s proposal to put levies on imports from countries with weak climate legislation is which…

The US-EU green steel deal: Climate breakthrough or lipstick on a pig?

US President Joe Biden was handed a number of ticking time bombs by his predecessor Donald Trump. One of them…

The promise of Ukraine’s unprecedented coal phase-out

In the first week of COP26 in Glasgow, Ukraine joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), a coalition of national…

Germany: Climate action tops any new coalition’s agenda

The climate crisis will be a top priority for the next German government, regardless of its party constellation. “Climate change…

EU bets big on its flagship carbon market

The EU carbon price maintained its more than €50 ($59.19) a tonne level on the back of proposals to revise…