EU mulls use of global carbon permits from 2020

Reuters: The European Commission could discuss the possibility of allowing Europe's emitters to use some government-held Kyoto carbon permits to meet caps under the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS), an EU official said on Monday. Poland has called for Europe's biggest emitters to be allowed to use government-held emission rights allocated under the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, to meet carbon caps under the bloc's carbon market, a policy paper proposed last week. The Polish paper said...

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