Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool

Reuters: Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a 'central bank' or other policy tool to manage future imbalances in the world's biggest carbon market. If it does act, the European Commission, the bloc's executive, is cautious about entrenching such a mechanism in the scheme, the bloc's chief weapon to fight climate change. Analysts and observers say a new tool is needed to fix an oversupply estimated...

URL: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/uk-carbon-supply-idUKBRE8400I420120501

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