ESR-LetteraVotoEnviCom(12.5.17)

A joint letter from environmental organizations to Italian MEPs arguing that the European Commission's Effort Sharing Regulation proposal is inadequate and proposing specific amendments to reduce the carbon budget, limit the use of credits, and introduce periodic target reviews.

• The authors argue that the European Commission's proposal for the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) is insufficient because it sets an inadequate 2030 target, uses an excessively high starting point for emissions, and contains various gaps.
• The organizations propose changing the emission starting point to the 2017 level rather than the Commission's proposed 2016-2018 average, which would reduce the community carbon budget by approximately 500 million tonnes.
• The letter calls for a reduction in the use of non-permanent forest credits from LULUCF and the surplus from the Emissions Trading System (ETS), noting that the current proposal allows for 380 million tonnes of such credits.
• To prevent national targets from being met only on paper, the authors suggest limiting the amount of accumulated credits each country can use to 5%, which would enable an additional reduction of 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
• The document advocates for the inclusion of a periodic review clause to increase emission reduction targets in alignment with the processes established by the Paris Agreement.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2017). ESR-LetteraVotoEnviCom(12.5.17). https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ESR-letter-to-Italian-MEPs-12-May-2017.pdf

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. ESR-LetteraVotoEnviCom(12.5.17). 2017. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ESR-letter-to-Italian-MEPs-12-May-2017.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2017esrletteravotoenvicom12517, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{ESR-LetteraVotoEnviCom(12.5.17)}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2017}, month = may, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ESR-letter-to-Italian-MEPs-12-May-2017.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }