Industrial Emissions Directive

Carbon Market Watch argues that the European Commission's proposal to revise the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) fails to meaningfully address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because it maintains the exclusion of GHGs from installations covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The organization recommends deleting Article 9.1 to allow binding emission limits for ETS sectors, maintaining the deletion of Article 9.2 to make energy efficiency requirements mandatory, and strengthening the requirements for industrial transformation plans (TP) to ensure they are binding, detailed, and implemented before 2030.

• The current proposal for the IED revision fails to meaningfully address greenhouse gas emissions because it retains Article 9.1, which excludes GHGs from installations already covered by the EU ETS. Carbon Market Watch argues that the Commission's decision to delay the integration of the IED's command-and-control approach with the ETS market-based system until 2028 provides no beneficial impact on the climate or environment.
• Carbon Market Watch disputes the Commission's claim that binding emission limits for ETS sectors would harm the efficiency of the carbon market. It asserts that the EU ETS already possesses mechanisms to manage market oversupply, and that combining the IED with a strong ETS would accelerate industrial decarbonisation and emission reductions.
• The proposed introduction of transformation plans (TP) for operators is considered insufficient due to vague objectives, a timeline that may push implementation to 2034, and a non-binding regime. The document argues that TPs should be ready by 2025, include clear milestones and indicators, and be reflected in permits to make them binding and enforceable.
• The document supports the deletion of Article 9.2, which would remove the option for member states to decide whether to impose binding energy efficiency requirements, thereby making such requirements mandatory for all covered installations.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2022). Industrial Emissions Directive. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/090166e5ede2a90d.pdf

Chicago

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2022industrial, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Industrial Emissions Directive}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/090166e5ede2a90d.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }