Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

The Commission is launching today the first call for proposals under the Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies, financed by revenues from the auction of emission allowances from the EU’s Emissions Trading System. The Innovation Fund will finance breakthrough technologies for renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy […]

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and ICE Futures Europe (ICE) published today the revised 2020 auction calendars in view of the implementation of the Market Stability Reserve. The EEX auctions in its capacity of common auction platform will include, as from 16 July, the volumes of allowances for the Innovation Fund. Auction volumes in the […]

The Commission published today the invitation to the procurement of the third common auction platform of the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS). This platform will auction the allowances on behalf of 25 Member States and the 3 EEA-EFTA States, as well as the allowances for the Innovation Fund and the Modernisation Fund. The third […]

EU support of some €34 million will help boost three innovative projects for clean transport in Italy and Germany for a total investment of €370 million. The funding comes from unspent funds from the NER 300 programme, reinvested to support innovative low-carbon projects under the Connecting Europe Facility Debt Instrument, an EU financial instrument managed […]

The European Commission has adopted its annual report on the functioning of the European carbon market. Covering the year 2018, the report also presents certain initiatives proposed or agreed in 2019. The report shows that in 2018, emissions from installations covered by the EU ETS decreased by 4.1%, or about 73 million tonnes CO2 equivalents, […]

The Commission decided to reinvest unspent funds from the NER300 programme to support low-carbon innovation projects under InnovFin Energy Demo Projects (EDP), an EU financial instrument managed by the European Investment Bank. The first three projects are now benefiting from support of some €73 million. Reinvesting the unspent funds from the first NER300 call enables […]

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) published today its revised 2019 calendar as well as the 2020 calendar for the auctions of general allowances in its capacity as Common Auction Platform. The volumes of general allowances are based on Articles 10(1) of the ETS Directive taking into account the volumes withheld from auctioning pursuant to Articles […]

The Commission is today announcing an investment programme worth over €10 billion for low-carbon technologies in several sectors to boost their global competitiveness. Innovative climate action has a range of benefits for the health and prosperity of Europeans with an immediate, tangible impact on people’s lives – from the creation of local green jobs and […]

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 […]