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- a proposal for a Directive promoting renewable energy, to help achieve
both of the above emissions targets.
Other proposals that are also part of the package include a proposal for a
legal framework on carbon capture and storage, a Communication on the
demonstration of carbon capture and storage and new guidelines for
environmental state aid.
This Section is structured as follows:
• First, two major types of options for EU burden-sharing and ETS
allocation beyond 2012 are introduced in Section 3.2, together with six
EU burden-sharing approaches (most of them already introduced in
Chapter 2). The Commission’s proposal – 23 rd January 2008 – for EU
internal effort sharing will be further discussed in Subsection 3.2.1.
• Then, in Section 3.3, methods for allocating the EU reduction objectives
(20% unilateral or 30% multilateral) are explored, in order to analyze the
implications – costs, reduction efforts and distributional effects – of the
various approaches on Spain. The results used are the ones presented by
den Elzen et al. (2007b); they use the FAIR 2.1 modeling framework.
• Finally, in Section 3.4, the results will be further discussed and compared
to the Commission’s proposal for EU internal effort sharing; always
regarding the implications on Spain.
3.2 Options for post-2012 EU burden-sharing and ETS allocation
The purpose of Section 3 is to identify the implications for Spain, in
quantitative terms – i.e. abatement costs and emission allowances – depending
on the approach or methodology used for distributing the EU-assigned amount
of emission allowances at the national or sector level, as discussed below for the
various types of options for EU burden-sharing and ETS allocation (post-2012).
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI Carmen Bunzl Boulet Junio 2008