Solving the coal puzzle

by | December 18, 2019 | Coal, Europe | 0 Comments

Lessons from four years of coal phase-out policy in Europe

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Playing With Fire

by | December 15, 2019 | Coal, ETS, Europe | 0 Comments

An assessment of company plans to burn biomass in EU coal power stations

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The A-B-C of BCAs

by | December 3, 2019 | Carbon Pricing, Climate Governance, ETS, Europe | 0 Comments

An overview of the issues around introducing Border Carbon Adjustments in the EU

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Coal mine methane leaks are worse for climate change than all shipping and aviation

by | November 13, 2019 | Coal | 0 Comments

New IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal mine methane leaks add up to a third to emissions from coal

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Coal Free Kingdom

by | November 13, 2019 | Coal, UK | 0 Comments

UK election manifestos should commit to take the UK fully coal-free, including in industry, finance, and domestic heating – ready for next year’s COP26 in Glasgow

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The cash cow has stopped giving: Are Germany’s lignite plants now worthless?

by | July 31, 2019 | Carbon Pricing, Coal, ETS | 0 Comments

Our new research finds German lignite gross profits collapsed 54% so far in 2019. With lignite now loss-making, the case for Gov. compensation has collapsed

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Amendments to UK greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme and national emissions inventory regulations – Consultation Response

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Proposed amendments to the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme regulations (Consultation URN 13D/198), along with early-2013 legislation already passed but yet to be translated into new guidance by the Environment Agency, will endanger the integrity of the ETS scheme in the UK, primarily by making fines ‘discretionary’ and removing criminal penalties. In this response, Sandbag calls for the €100tCO2 mandatory penalties to be reinstated. Read more in the blog here: Polluters to avoid paying for carbon emissions in government’s ‘bonfire of regulation’

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September 3, 2013