European green deal

What will shape the debate on ETS reform?

Flora Marchioro

ETS Tracker

This tracker maps the EU ETS through data on emissions, compliance, allowances, auction revenues, prices and installations

Jan Abrell, Marie Jugé, Flora Marchioro, Ben McWilliams, Thomas Mramor, Roberto Rossini, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

European clean tech tracker

This tracker provides an overview of the main innovation, manufacturing and deployment trends in clean tech in Europe

Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams, Roberto Rossini and Simone Tagliapietra

The EU emissions trading system works but most industrial decarbonisation is still to come

Survey evidence shows regulated manufacturers respond to the EU carbon price, but want reassurance on policy direction and stringency

Debora Revoltella and Fotios Kalantzis

Double materiality doubles the work

Rebecca Christie

Why is sustainable finance so disconnected from capital markets?

Rebecca Christie

Green finance or financing green? Bridging the EU’s sustainable-finance and capital-market architectures

Sustainable finance rules risk becoming costly compliance unless the EU aligns disclosure with market policy and global standards

Rebecca Christie

Tracking the EU Clean Industrialisation Process: A Focus on Batteries and Electric Vehicles

Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams and Simone Tagliapietra

The flaws in the European Union’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act and how to fix them

IAA provisions should rest on clear sector choices, WTO-safe criteria and FDI screening that welcomes value-adding investment

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

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

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

Europe’s emissions trading system is an ally, not an enemy, of industrial competitiveness

The 2026 review of the EU ETS must be anchored in facts and focus on the potential benefits of the system to EU competitiveness

Thomas Mramor and Simone Tagliapietra

Europe’s electricity capacity mechanisms need to be better coordinated

This paper analyses EU capacity mechanisms, their cost and security impacts, and the pros and challenges of deeper regional coordination

Pär Holmberg, Christoph Maurer, Monika Morawiecka, Fabien Roques and Georg Zachmann