Decarbonisation

The European Union is exporting carbon pricing through trade

Early experience of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism shows trade can spread carbon pricing, but lower-income partners need support

Maximilian Fuchs and Camille Reverdy

Montenegro’s power connection to the EU

How do Montenegro and the Western Balkans manage electricity, CBAM and the green transition?

Rebecca Christie, Admir Šahmanović, Rouven Stubbe and Nina Vujanović

Carbon pricing beyond borders: assessing climate policy spillovers from the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism

EU CBAM is nudging trade-exposed partners towards carbon pricing, but spillovers are concentrated in high and upper middle-income countries

Anna Bahí, Maximilian Fuchs and Camille Reverdy

To what extent can the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism spur global climate action?

Maximilian Fuchs and Camille Reverdy

Investing for tomorrow: long-term investment, economic scale and the green transition

Climate mitigation investment increases with long horizons, economic scale and investor diversity, underscoring long-term capital and climate clubs

Philip Ushchev and Guntram B. Wolff

Five reasons why attacking the EU carbon market is economic self-sabotage

When discussing the EU emissions trading system, policymakers should remember five risks of undermining the system

Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

Dependence on fossil fuels, not on the United States, is Europe’s worry

The US has replaced Russia to a great extent as an energy supplier to the European Union, but this has not so far created a new vulnerability

Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams and Georg Zachmann

EU renewables value tracker

Marie Jugé, Alexander Roth and Georg Zachmann

Holding the line on the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism

Exempting fertilisers from CBAM would achieve little while risking climate progress

Kimberly Clausing, Ignacio García Bercero, Marilyn Pereboom and Catherine Wolfram

Defragmenting European Union climate policy

Simplification without carbon price convergence risks deeper fragmentation, higher costs and weaker credibility for the EU’s climate target

Michael Pahle, Darius Sultani and Georg Zachmann

How can the EU energy system be made more efficient?

Simone Tagliapietra

A new European energy policy paradigm revealed by changes in hydrogen strategies

James Kneebone, Ben McWilliams, Olivia Moor and Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez

Better coordination for a more efficient European energy system

EU energy efficiency hinges on open data, integrated grid planning and aligned national plans as electrification raises the cost of fragmentation

Alexander Roth, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

‘Made with Europe’ not ‘Made in Europe’ should guide EU industrial policy

The European Union should not go down the path of local-content requirements to protect industry but should remain open to international cooperation

Ignacio García Bercero, Antoine Mathieu Collin, Ben McWilliams, Niclas Poitiers and Simone Tagliapietra

How can Europe make CBAM a decarbonisation success story?

Ben McWilliams