Tag Archives: Archimedes
Can the debt crisis help cure the EU ETS?
“Drop everything!” cried Günther the other day, bursting through my door. His voice was trembling with excitement. “We have the solution; you won’t believe it. It is so elegantly simple. And … totally legal,” he purred. I sat him down, … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, debt crisis, EU Emission Trading Scheme, EU ETS, Greece, Günther, set-aside
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Signal confusion
Does the EUA price constitute a signal or not? Should it? Trevor Sikorsky of Barclays Capital argues in Barclays’ Quarterly Carbon Standard (26th March 2012) that: “It is expectations that drive such investment [in clean technology] … not current prices.” … Continue reading