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3.3.2 Option 2. EU burden-sharing with ETS allocation at EU level
This section uses EU burden-sharing with ETS allocation at EU level (Option
2) as its main starting point. The calculations are performed in four steps, as
described in Figure 4 – 22.
Figure 4 - 22. The four steps for the calculation of Option 2: EU burden-sharing with ETS allocation at
EU level.
The recent European Commission’s proposal for effort sharing is similar to
this option, but would only involve implementing steps 1, 2a and 3 (shown by
the red line in Figure 4 – 11). Here, ETS sectoral caps are allocated to each
Member State (Step 2b) and summarized together with non-ETS Member State
caps in Step 4, therefore providing and approximate measure of individual
countries’ efforts such as Spain.
For the calculations, it is assumed that the ETS sector includes all GHG
emissions from the industrial and electricity sectors, and that the non-ETS
sector includes the remaining GHG emissions.
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI Carmen Bunzl Boulet Junio 2008