In its new draft compromise on the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed to Member States on Wednesday 8 June to postpone by one year the entry into force of the new carbon market designed to cover emissions from heating of buildings and road transport (ETS2), as well as the inclusion of emissions from the maritime sector in the current ETS.
Auctioning of ETS2 emission allowances would therefore only start in...