SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate

Member States remain sceptical about creating a new carbon market for buildings and road transport

Brussels, 20/12/2021 (Agence Europe)

A large majority of European Union countries expressed reservations about, or even opposition to, the introduction of a new EU emissions trading system, adjacent to the current one, covering buildings and road transport (ETS2), at a meeting of Member States’ Environment Ministers (Environment Council of the EU) on Monday 20 December.

Ministers discussed the five proposals of the ‘Fit for 55 package’ managed by the Environment Council of the EU (see EUROPE B12848A14): - the revision of...