Emissions trading system – climate neutrality plan for installations under ETS in response to ETS revision / Fit for 55

Carbon Market Watch argues that climate neutrality plans (CNPs) for high-emitting installations must be transparent, standardized, and subject to rigorous assessment criteria to prevent them from becoming a mere formality for receiving free emission allowances. The organization advocates for the mandatory use of a common electronic template to ensure comparability across Member States and calls for the public disclosure of these plans under the Aarhus Convention to ensure accountability for big polluters.

• Carbon Market Watch argues that the derogation allowing Member States to provide their own templates for climate neutrality plans (CNPs) should be removed in favor of a mandatory common electronic template to ensure coherence and comparability between different countries.
• The organization asserts that CNPs should be publicly accessible to improve accountability, particularly for large polluters receiving free allowances, and suggests that most information—excluding specific investment sizes—should be disclosed under the Aarhus Convention.
• Carbon Market Watch claims that the proposed implementing regulation lacks clear criteria for assessing the quality and robustness of CNPs, which may result in the plans becoming a "tick of the box" exercise that fails to enforce meaningful decarbonization commitments.
• The organization maintains that free allocation of emission allowances should be completely phased out by 2030 to uphold the "polluter-pays" principle.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2023). Emissions trading system – climate neutrality plan for installations under ETS in response to ETS revision / Fit for 55. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20230828-CMW-feedback-on-CNP-for-public-consultation.pdf

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Emissions trading system – climate neutrality plan for installations under ETS in response to ETS revision / Fit for 55. 2023. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20230828-CMW-feedback-on-CNP-for-public-consultation.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Carbon Market Watch |title=Emissions trading system – climate neutrality plan for installations under ETS in response to ETS revision / Fit for 55 |date=28 August 2023 |url=https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20230828-CMW-feedback-on-CNP-for-public-consultation.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2023emissions, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Emissions trading system – climate neutrality plan for installations under ETS in response to ETS revision / Fit for 55}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2023}, month = aug, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20230828-CMW-feedback-on-CNP-for-public-consultation.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }