ECF 2011 Annual Report - European Climate Foundation
ECF 2011 Annual Report - European Climate Foundation
ECF 2011 Annual Report - European Climate Foundation
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Programme Overview<br />
EU CLIMATE POLICIES<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
In <strong>2011</strong>, we worked to keep the prospect of an increased EU 2020 mitigation<br />
target open for discussion, to advocate for tightening the Emissions Trading<br />
System (ETS), to turn Germany’s “Energiekonzept” into law, and to initiate a<br />
process for developing a low-carbon roadmap in Poland.<br />
The economic crisis has reduced<br />
<strong>European</strong> demand for CO₂ emission<br />
permits from the <strong>European</strong> Union<br />
(EU)’s Emissions Trading System<br />
(ETS), driving permit prices to record<br />
lows. As the ETS is the backbone of<br />
the EU’s carbon reduction efforts,<br />
the <strong>ECF</strong> and its partners focused on<br />
promoting stronger 2020 mitigation<br />
targets and on strengthening<br />
the ETS system so that it can once<br />
again incentivise investment in lowcarbon<br />
technologies.<br />
Thanks to these efforts, the<br />
Commission’s low-carbon roadmap,<br />
which sets the path for reducing<br />
emissions by 80-95% by 2050, now<br />
reflects the policy positions of <strong>ECF</strong><br />
grantees, echoing arguments that<br />
climate action will bring co-benefits<br />
in the form of economic growth and<br />
reduced healthcare spending.<br />
The <strong>Climate</strong> Action Network Europe<br />
(CAN-E), <strong>Climate</strong> Strategies, Sandbag,<br />
and World Wide Fund for Nature<br />
(WWF) demonstrated that, without<br />
<strong>2011</strong> GOALS<br />
• Keep the EU’s conditional target of 30%<br />
emissions reduction by 2020 on the table<br />
• Pressure the <strong>European</strong> Commission to introduce<br />
a proposal to tighten the ETS<br />
• Translate Germany’s “Energiekonzept” into law<br />
• Create a new energy future vision for Poland by driving<br />
the Polish low-carbon 2050 roadmap<br />
ETS improvements, national governments<br />
will lose substantial financial<br />
revenues. The grantees alongside<br />
other partners pushed for ‘setting<br />
aside’ carbon credits in the system, an<br />
idea that is now under discussion at<br />
the highest political levels.<br />
Our partners have also focused on<br />
improving the quality of offsets used<br />
in the ETS, with grantee CDM-Watch<br />
scoring a significant victory by<br />
helping ban fake HFC-23 offset<br />
credits in the EU.<br />
12<br />
in October <strong>2011</strong>. <strong>ECF</strong> were a key partner to making this event a resounding success from beginning to end. We look forward to continuing to work with the <strong>ECF</strong> in the future.” Fiona Godlee, Editor of
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