EU ETS and competiveness: the tricky equation of free allocation through to 2030

17 February 2015 - Carbon Trends

EU ETS – MSR debate: on 21st January, the ITRE committee of the European Parliament voted and rejected amendments to the MSR reform, and therefore will not provide any opinion concerning the mechanism to the ENVI committee.

EU ETS – MSR timetable: the ENVI committee voted on 23rd and 24th February 2015 about possible amendments to the MSR.

New Entrants Reserve (NER): 18.6 million allowances were allocated in 2013 and 2014, 51 million will be earmarked for the period 2015-2020.

EU ETS and competiveness: the tricky equation of free allocation through to 2030 Download

To learn more

07/24/2025 Blog post
Can the next EU budget point the way to an investment plan for climate transition?

Commission President von der Leyen announced a €2 trillion EU budget fit “for a new era,” set to launch for a seven-year period in 2028. As EU-watchers in Brussels and beyond scrambled to digest the reams of legislative proposals that followed this headline-grabbing announcement, much in the detail should give pause – especially from the perspective of closing the EU’s climate investment deficit.
07/09/2025 Blog post
What’s next for climate finance? From Seville to Belém

With the dust settling from COP29’s hard-fought negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), attention is shifting to how the climate finance goal will be met. The challenge is how to scale up financing for increasingly connected priorities in a challenging landscape of debt stress and cuts in official development assistance.
07/08/2025
Annex 2 – Methodology note (2025 Edition)

EU ETS and competiveness: the tricky equation of free allocation through to 2030

Can the next EU budget point the way to an investment plan for climate transition?

What’s next for climate finance? From Seville to Belém

Annex 2 – Methodology note (2025 Edition)