| Plans to accelerate reform of Europe's carbon market could be finalised as soon as April, building on the momentum from last week's EU deal on green energy policy, Britain's energy and climate minister said on Tuesday.
The EU has been debating proposals to strengthen its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), meant to be the bloc's sharpest tool in shifting to a low carbon economy but blunted by a surplus of spare pollution permits. The plan is to set up a mechanism known as the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) to absorb some of the excess and drive up the price of allowances to increase the cost of burning higher carbon fuels relative to cleaner energy...............................................Full Article: Source
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