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■事実関係■
New data released today reveals greenhouse gas emissions across the EU are in steep decline. Emissions covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme between 2008 and 2009 dropped by 11%, following on from a cut of 6% the year before.
Power generators saw their emissions fall by 119 tonnes (8%) last year but that still left them 124 tonnes short of permits. On the other hand heavy industry including steel and cement saw a fall of 96 million tonnes (18%) leaving them with 185 million tonnes of permits spare or 30% more than they needed.
At the moment, under the EU’s target of a 20% cut in emissions by 2020 this would mean a reduction in the cap of 1.74% a year. Today’s figures revealed that we are already half way to achieving that reduction level with a decade still to go.
unless caps are tightened there will be no overall reduction in pollution levels. Permits issued under the EU trading scheme can be banked forward indefinitely meaning they will sooner or later be used to pollute.
If they (=heavy industry) were to sell them at today’s prices this would raise €2.4 bn with most of this money would coming from consumers of electricity.
Given the cuts achieved to date, which can be banked, and the levels of reductions rich countries like the EU are now expected to deliver, it would seem tighter targets are the only sensible way forward.いろいろと問題は叫ばれているものの、個人的には、cap-and-tradeを諦めるにはまだ早い(というか、それにまともに対抗出来うる手段がない)という気がしているのだが、殊、EU-ETSという具体的実施事例に関して言えば――目標値が緩すぎるかどうかは別にしても――、放置しづらい問題が、いくつか生じてきていると言えよう。そういった不具合がcurableなものなのかどうか、また、そうであれば、どういった対策で以て治癒できるのか、しっかり検証しておく必要があるなと思う。
このニュースに触れ、先学期、米国のcap-and-trade法案(←瀕死)についてのエントリを書いたことを思い出し、読み直してみた。やや書生的な匂いがしないではないが、この法案、非常によく書けているなと改めて感じる。残念ながら、この国で、この法案が日の目を見る可能性は、あまり高くはなさそうだが…。
my room, Syracuse, Apr 2, 26:43
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