GERMANY RULING AT ECJ COULD ALLOW GOVERNMENTS TO STRIP TRANSPORT COMPANIES OF CARBON CREDITS
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has weakened the value of saleable CO2 emission permits which would be issued to company car fleets, should road transport be included in the European Union's (EU) emissions trading regime. This issue is currently under consideration by the European Commission, which is drafting a green paper on which sectors should trade greenhouse gas emissions from 2013. Transport is currently excluded from the EU emissions trading system, but it could be included from 2013, if administrative and monitoring problems can be ...
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