Commission confident no harm done to ETS

摘要

Limits on EU member states' greenhouse gas emissions allowances are "not renegotiable", the European Commission said last week, amidst fears that recent European court rulings might lead to member states attempting to re-discuss their carbon quotas and lower their climate ambitions.rnEuropean Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas issued a statement on 24 September suggesting that a recalculation was unlikely to lead to any changes in carbon allowances handed out. Emissions in 2008 corresponded closely with the Commission's predictions, he said: "The EU-ETS [emissions trading scheme] is of central importance for combating climate change," he said.