Bringing the ETS in line with reality: Making biomass emissions count through the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation

13 June 2011 | Download the PDF

This briefing examines the treatment of biomass-for-energy emissions under the Emissions Trading and Renewable Energy Directives. It argues that the European Commission can and should use the legislative mandate to adopt a regulation for the monitoring and reporting of emissions under the ETS to make it more true to its principles and objectives, by eliminating the zero-emission factor for biomass.

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