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Fierce battle looms over cars and heat in EU emissions trading

Road transport and buildings have been spared from EU ETS obligations until now, but an upcoming revision may change that, and climate campaigners are concerned.

By Dave Keating

Carbon markets

How Europe’s carbon price is struggling to decarbonise industry

The burden of emissions reductions imposed by the EU carbon market has fallen mostly on the power sector, but, as emissions targets deepen, this will have to change. Are Europe’s industrial emitters ready?

Regulation/policy

Weekly data: Interest rate modelling risks overestimating decarbonising costs

The EU's future interest rate of 10% risks over-inflating the estimated cost of decarbonising, potentially putting more ambitious future carbon targets at risk.

Analysis

Opinion: Time for a global coalition to reduce methane emissions

The EU wants “a quick agreement” with the US on methane emissions. Joe Biden should accept the offer to help assemble a global coalition of countries to slash methane pollution.

Just transition

Oil nations face perilous future without energy transition support

Petrostates face a tricky future as the world decarbonises, with declining oil revenues threatening their finances. There is a strong case for industrialised countries to offer more support to less well off producer economies.

Weekly data

Denmark leads the pack for emissions reductions

Western European countries by percentage drop in CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, 1990–19 (Source: IEA)

Country	Drop in emissions
Denmark	-43.7%
UK	-38.3%
Sweden	-37.6%
Germany	-29.9%
Finland	-22.9%
Italy	-22.2%
Greece	-18.7%
France	-15.2%
Belgium	-14.9%
Luxembourg	-14.0%

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Energy storage

The role of battery storage in the energy transition

Falling prices have made battery energy storage competitive for myriad applications on and off the grid. Additional support from policymakers will enable storage to realise its enormous potential.

Carbon removal

Why Drax is pushing CO2 removal as a key climate tool

Drax is out to prove that applying carbon capture and storage technologies to biomass-fired energy production is vital to get to net zero. Energy Monitor spoke to the UK power company's CEO Will Gardiner.

Green deals

Opinion: Clean energy and Covid – fighting to build back better

Clean energy companies are proving resilient to the Covid crisis and expectations are growing for a "new normal" that gets the world on track to net zero, but government commitments to a green recovery remain mixed.

Power

Weekly data: Renewables overtake nuclear in global electricity mix

More electricity was generated from renewables than nuclear in 2019, but despite strong growth, investment in renewables will have to be massively scaled up to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Policy

Why we need an EU-Turkey energy transition platform

Accession talks between the EU and Turkey have well and truly stalled, but trying to work more closely together on clean energy could benefit both sides, and help take fossil fuels offline.

Finance

How to bring climate modelling in line with net-zero ambitions

If the EU is to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, it needs to ensure the interest rates that underpin its climate modelling help, not hinder, this ambition, writes Brook Riley, head of EU affairs at Rockwool Group.

Corporate strategy

Clean energy companies show resilience during Covid recession

Clean energy companies Schneider Electric, Vestas, Sunrun, Xcel Energy and NextEra Energy outperformed companies in other sectors over the past year. Their strong performance came as investment in renewables continued to increase in 2020.

Reporting and disclosure

Taking the measure of an EU taxonomy for green investment

Classifying which economic activities contribute to environmental objectives is a central part of the EU sustainable finance agenda. Head of the European Sustainable Investment Forum Victor van Hoorn explains what is behind a new EU 'green' taxonomy.

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Weekly data

Denmark leads the pack for emissions reductions

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