On Monday, July 17, the two houses of the Californian parliament have passed the bill AB 397 with a supermajority to extend the state’s cap and trade programme until 2030, as the Los Angeles Times reports. So far, the system, which includes GHG emissions from refineries, power plants and factories, ran only from 2013 until 2020. read more…
Category: Policies & Negotiations
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IN DEPTH: A tangled case – Turkey’s status under UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement
Despite joining the position of all G20 members except of the US to designate the Paris Agreement as “irreversible”, shortly after the summit in Hamburg Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would be currently less inclined to ratify the Paris Agreement, as Reuters report. Erdogan linked this statement directly with the US decision read more…
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IMO takes a step forward to tackle GHG emissions from the shipping sector
The meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) ended on Friday (July 7) in London. According to IMO’s official press briefing, a draft outline of IMO’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping sector was agreed. The strategy shall be adopted next year. Moreover, the enhancement of energy read more…
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Paris deal is “irreversible” for G20 leaders, except for US
At the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, leaders of the 20 major economies have expressed their commitment to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to work towards low GHG emission energy systems. However, according to the leaders’ declaration, the head of states and government “take note of the decision of the [US] to withdraw from the Paris read more…
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IN-DEPTH: State-of-the-art of EU ETS post-2020 revision talks
On June 27, the European Union (EU) Council, Parliament, and Commission met for trialogues that focused on discussing the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for the period after 2020. The next trialogue is projected to take place around July 10, and more technical meetings are to follow in order to finalise revision read more…
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EU Council reaches compromise on 2030 efficiency targets
The Council of the European Union agreed on June 26 upon its position on Energy Efficiency Directive. The general insight was reached after several proposals and discussions. This Council meeting was a continuum to agree on the EU Commission’s proposal for energy efficiency target and energy savings obligations under the European climate and energy framework read more…
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Civil society makes climate action a priority for G20 leaders
With Germany having assumed the presidency of the G20 (Group of Twenty) in December 2016, the G20 Summit 2017 is scheduled to take place in Hamburg, Germany, on the 7 and 8 July. It is one of the central global forums for international cooperation on financial and economic issues. A full list of the twenty read more…
