The EU Parliament Environment Committee January 11 2026 voted for the #Breakthrough Agreement in EU Climate Policy, adopted in the November 5 2025 Environment Council meeting. Additional #flexibilities ensure meeting the ambitious climate EU 90% target for 2040, boosting carbon removals, partly through the use of Article 6 Paris Agreement carbon credits, also at lower…
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‘Ex Lege Libertas’: de vrijwarende werking van het EU Emissiehandels-systeem
Mijn artikel in het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Energierecht (NTE) in december 2025 hierover staat online. Door de uitbreiding van de reikwijdte van het ETS en de toenemende ambitie rijst de vraag of het ETS de verplicht deelnemende bedrijven vrijwaart van additionele, individuele CO2-reductieverplichtingen, opgelegd via art. 6:162 BW (onrechtmatige daad) en de maatschappelijke zorgvuldigheidsplicht. Het…
The Swedish Blueprint: CO2 Deals That Deliver on Climate Goals
At the recent Climate Summit in Baku, November 2024, world leaders took a bold step toward tackling the climate crisis. The summit gave the official green light for the use of carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, a mechanism designed to help nations meet their climate commitments while mobilizing much-needed climate finance…
Whether ETS-2 will be effective in achieving the CO2 targets remains to be seen
To help achieve the EU’s 55% target for 2030 and 0 in 2050, the EU has determined that the EU Emissions Trading System for industry, energy, air and maritime shipping (ETS-1) will get a little brother as of 2027: ETS-2. This includes CO2 emissions from the combustion of fuels in traffic and for heating and…
Outcome of CoP28 and difference between Art 6.2. country-to-country CO2 deals & Art 6.4. credit trade
The Global Stocktake Text gives a complete package to keep the 1,5 Degrees target within sight. It introduces a goodbye to fossil fuels use and countries promise to triple renewables power capacity, double energy efficiency, and reduce methane emissions. And it also asks to accelerate work on Article 6, including the carbon market and carbon removals….
European emissions system determines meeting agreed CO2 targets, fossil subsidies secondary
Abstract Many pleas for abolishing fossil subsidies fail to recognize the existence of the European Emissions Trading System: that system ensures that we meet agreed CO2 targets even before 2040. Fossil fuel subsidies do nothing to change that, while abolishing them could even lead to more overall greenhouse emissions and harm the competitive position of…
Nations develop strategies for a smart use of the global carbon market to help meet Paris goals
The Paris Agreement Parties adopted at CoP-26 in Glasgow in 2021 Art 6.2 guidelines, to make use of international carbon trading to help meet the Paris goals and a new centralized carbon credit issuing mechanism (Art 6.4). Parties are now preparing to operationalize these guidelines and to setup the Supervisory Body for Art 6.4, to…
UN won’t make carbon markets ambitious & voluntary carbon markets spur ambition and transparency
During the on-line climate meeting the previous 2,5 weeks there was progress, the UNFCCC Executive Secretary said during the press briefing. However, that does not seem the case on the issue of guidance on the use of carbon markets to help increase ambition in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. “Talks on carbon markets and…