As a result of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), some member states are importing more and more electricity from coal-fired power plants in neighbouring countries of the EU, thereby relocating their carbon emissions, a new report by Sandbag, published on Wednesday 29 January, warns.
For this think-tank specialising in climate issues, carbon leakage “will undermine EU emissions cuts, as well as incentivising further use of coal in neighbouring countries, turning...