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  • Politicians add to calls for a price on carbon emissions

    20 October 2015

    Leading politicians have come together to support calls for a price on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN's climate change talks in Paris in December.

  • ETS reform could see carbon price treble by 2020, say analysts

    06 May 2015

    The price of EU emission allowances (EUAs) could rise to more than €20 ($22.5) by 2020 from their current level of about €7.5, as a result of an agreement to curb the excess supply of allowances, analysts said.

  • Czech Republic switches sides in 'major' breakthrough for EU carbon

    01 May 2015

    EU nations have agreed to back an early start for the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) in a major step forward for floundering carbon market.

  • Commission reforms will not save the EU ETS, says think-tank

    17 October 2014

    The surplus of emission allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) could reach 4.5 billion by 2020, despite recent reforms to the market, a leading think-tank has warned.