UK pushes for ambitious back-loading plan

摘要

The UK will only support the European Commission's back-loading proposal for phase 3 (2013-20) of the EU emis- sions trading scheme (ETS) if "certain conditions" are met, including a greater amount of back-loaded allowances, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc). "The UK would have preferred a much more ambitious proposal. We would align ourselves with those mem- ber states calling for 1.2bn allowances to be back-loaded," Decc says.