A Legal Obligation to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: A Challenge to the European Union's Emissions Trading System and the EU Member States with the Largest Agricultural Impact

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Peters
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Agricultural Impact ◽  
Emissions Trading System ◽  
The Eu

German carbon dividend drive will inspire more nations

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Carbon Prices ◽  
Emissions Trading System

Significance With the advent of China’s national emissions trading system in the past year, carbon prices now cover more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet doubts remain over whether they are high enough to force decarbonisation. Impacts Higher carbon prices will be more effective in curbing emissions than the relatively low prices that have prevailed in the past. Germany’s new coalition government will include the Greens and Free Democrats, parties committed to carbon dividends and carbon pricing. The successful rollout of this policy in Germany could serve as a model for Europe and beyond.

scholarly journals Implementing the EU Climate Law via the ‘Fit for 55’ package

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Schlacke ◽  
Helen Wentzien ◽  
Eva-Maria Thierjung ◽  
Miriam Köster
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Reduction ◽  
Eu Emissions Trading System ◽  
Emissions Trading System ◽  
The Eu

ABSTRACT To implement the European Union (EU) Climate Law’s newly established 55% greenhouse gas reduction objective for 2030, the EU Commission suggests a wave of reforms to the European energy and climate legislation. The contribution aims to describe the EU Commission’s 16 initial legislative and strategic proposals regarding the major pillars of the European energy and climate legislation and intends to give an overview on the suggested reforms. By comparing the legal status quo with the legal framework de lege ferenda as presented by the Commission’s proposals, the planned major changes to the legal structures are identified. To achieve the 55% greenhouse gas reduction objective for 2030, all existing legal climate and energy acts are planned to be tightened by amending their targets as well as scopes and revising their structures. The suggested reforms concern the existing EU emissions trading system, effort sharing system between the Member States, energy taxation, energy efficiency and renewable energies. Additionally, the implementation of new instruments, such as the second EU emissions trading system for the sectors buildings and transport, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the Social Climate Fund, is proposed. The design of the package shows that the Commission still generally pursues a climate legislation characterized by a mix of instruments and policies being both price based and regulatory. So, even though the major proposed change—the introduction of a second separate emissions trading system—would strengthen the role of carbon pricing, the Commission still relies on a mix of instruments without defining a leading instrument.

scholarly journals Overview of the new regulatory base for 2019–2020 on the decarbonisation of economy and its influence on the conditions of functconing of the ukrainian gas industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
I.Ch. Leshchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Methane Emissions ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Reporting And Verification ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of the new Ukrainian and European regulatory framework for 2019-2020 concerning the decarburization of economy of the functioning of Ukrainian gas industry. The paper provides an overview of the Ukrainian regulatory framework of 2019–2020 on the implementation of the system of monitoring, reporting, and verification of greenhouse gas emissions in our country. We also provide an overview of new European documents on the decarbonisation of economy, in particular, the European Green Deal, the EU Strategy for Reducing Methane Emissions, and the Hydrogen Strategy for Climate-Neutral Europe. We showed that these EU documents will exert a significant influence on the functioning of both the energy sector of our country as a whole and its part – gas industry. The paper shows that, under the existing plans of the development of energy sector in European countries in order to reach the state where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and under conditions of fierce competition for sources and routes of gas supply to the European market, the most pressing problem confronting the gas transportation system of Ukraine is to optimize its structure with simultaneous replacement of outdated compressor equipment by modern one with lower carbon dioxide emissions, which will require a significant amount of investment. Under such conditions, it is necessary to study carefully the feasibility of introducing activities for the main transportation of gas under the action of Greenhouse Gas Trading System. We also showed that the reduction of methane emissions along the natural gas chain supply in accordance with the EU Strategy for the reduction of methane emissions is extremely important for Ukraine. In addition to the implementation of measures for reducing these emissions, it is necessary to attract attention to the development of national methods for estimating methane emissions and the use of national coefficients in the formation of the National Greenhouse gas emissions inventory for estimating volatile emissions from natural gas activities. Keywords: monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse Gas Trading System, decarbonisation, European Green Deal, gas transportation system

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