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ENVI Locks In 457-Code CBAM Expansion, Strips the Suspension Clause Ahead of September Plenary
The Parliament's environment committee has settled its negotiating position on the next phase of the carbon border levy, and the headline number is 457: the count of CN codes that will fall under CBAM once the committee's text becomes Parliament's mandate. That is a...
Brussels signs its first tripartite pact on storage, and the only hard lever sits in the tariff clause
Twenty-two member states put their names to the EU's first tripartite agreement on 26 June, pledging to back 30 to 35 GW of new energy storage across 2026 to 2028 alongside developers, energy-intensive industry and the EIB Group. The novelty is the format, not the...
Biomethane capacity clears 8 bcm as carbon pricing displaces subsidy as the sector’s anchor
Europe's installed biomethane production capacity has passed 8 bcm per year for the first time, reaching 8.2 bcm/year at the end of Q2 2026 after more than 1 bcm of additions in twelve months, a 17% expansion on 2025. The figure comes from the seventh edition of the...
A year past deadline, 19 capitals leave €85bn of the ETS2 Social Climate Fund unclaimed
Nineteen of the twenty-seven member states have still not filed the national plans that release their share of the Social Climate Fund, a full year after the 30 June 2025 deadline, leaving €85.3 billion of the €86.7 billion envelope unclaimed. Only Lithuania and...
The EPP reopens free allocation for power, a principle closed since 2013
The European Parliament's largest group is weighing whether power generators should once again receive free carbon allowances, a question the bloc settled in the negative more than a decade ago. That the idea is being floated at all, and by the EPP rather than a...
Capitals move to freeze the methane importer rules, and expose a rulebook that was never finished
The group of member states pressing to delay the EU Methane Regulation's importer regime has widened to seventeen, up from the eleven that signed the original démarche led by Prague and Bratislava and the twelve cited by Climate Action Network Europe as the Energy...
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