Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

The amendment to the ETS Auctioning Regulation re-listing Germany’s opt-out auction platform entered into force on 5 January. As a result, Germany will be able to resume auctions on its appointed opt-out platform, the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX), after the amendment to the ETS Auctioning Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the […]

The 2020 monetisation of the first batch of 50 million allowances for the Innovation Fund was planned to start on 7 January 2020 but will be slightly delayed. The auctions of Member States’ allowances will take place as scheduled. This slight postponement of the monetisation will not delay the launch of the Innovation Fund. The […]

Today the Commission adopted a delegated regulation amending the ETS Auctioning Regulation to list Germany’s next opt-out auction platform and to establish arrangements for monetising a first batch of 50 million allowances, to enable a timely start of the Innovation Fund in 2020. As indicated in a previous regulatory update, the draft amendment was published […]

A draft amendment to the ETS Auctioning Regulation listing Germany’s next opt-out auction platform has been published today on the Better Regulation Portal starting a four-week stakeholder feedback period. The draft amendment also establishes arrangements for monetising a first batch of 50 million allowances, to enable a timely start of the Innovation Fund in 2020. […]

Author Lina K. Mühlbauer summarises her team’s latest study exploring the use of Arduinos as a novel cost-effective method for microclimate monitoring in remote systems. Why measure microclimate? A great challenge of our times is to predict and mitigate the impacts of global climate change on the world’s ecosystems. To do so, a lot of […]

Innovative low-carbon technologies are vital for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring a healthy environment for the next generations. However, promising technologies often fail to reach the market due to a lack of resources to demonstrate their capabilities on a large scale. The EU will therefore invest a part of the revenues from the EU […]

Opportunities and challenges for financing the low-carbon economy, through both public and private channels, were discussed at an EU side event at the UN climate conference (COP23) in Bonn on Tuesday. At the event, held in the EU Pavilion at COP23, high-level speakers gave insights and recommendations on how low-carbon investments could be accelerated by […]

Intensified de-carbonisation of energy-intensive industries and energy in the next decade is a pre-requisite for meeting our climate and energy targets. To help the industry and the power sectors meet these innovation and investment challenges, the Commission proposal for revision of the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) post-2020 puts forward an Innovation Fund, which […]

Innovation will play a key role in delivering the low-carbon transition agreed by world leaders in Paris last December. With this in mind the European Commission today hosted a high-level roundtable debate on how to support this at European level. EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, who opened the discussion at the […]

Miguel Arias Cañete – Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy. Speech before the ENVI committee of the European Parliament. Dear Members, Allow me to start my first intervention as a commissioner before the ENVI committee stressing, as I did during the hearing, the importance that I give to the European Parliament, not only as co-legislator […]