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Policy Brief: European Climate Policy After the Elections – Implementation Challenges and the Next Phase
The European elections in June 2024 took place against a backdrop of multiple political crises: they were the first to be held since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, all of which revealed Europe’s diverse economic dependencies. In the face of these crises and numerous other geopolitical challenges, it is […]
Perspective – Conditional fungibility: sequencing permanent removals into emissions trading systems
New Perspective in Environmental Research Letters together with Josh Burke: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad796b. Our key argument: With the growing momentum for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a key element of mitigation strategies to achieve net-zero emission targets, its potential integration into cap-and-trade carbon markets is emerging as a key policy issue. A fundamental question in both conceptual […]
Implications of European Elections for climate policy – 5 theses
The European elections have changed the distribution of seats in the European Parliament: Overall, the right-wing and new parties gained seats, while the Greens and left-wing parties lost seats (see EuropeElects for details). The actual effects of this new distribution of seats will only become apparent after the formation of political groups and possible realignments, […]
Taking stock of carbon dioxide removal policy in Brazil, China, and India – new research article in Climate Policy
We have published a new research article in Climate Policy that extends the existing comparative analysis of CDR policies to Brazil, China, and India, countries that have not yet been covered in the literature on CDR policy and governance. Abstract: Deliberately removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an important elementof bringing mitigation pathways in […]
Felix Schenuit 