Should the EU ETS be Extended to Road Transport and Heating Fuels?

Michael G. Pollitt and Geoffroy G. Dolphin

Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2022, vol. Volume 11, issue Number 2

Abstract: This paper considers the current proposal to extend the EU ETS to cover CO2 emissions from the combustion of heating and road transport fuels. We argue that increased coverage of the EU ETS, together with a binding cap consistent with a net zero trajectory, would provide an EU-wide quantity backstop ensuring that the EU's cumulative emissions budget constraint is satisfied. As such, working alongside standards-based policies currently enacted in the covered sectors, it has the potential to (i) enhance environmental effectiveness by providing an intertemporal incentive for additional emissions reduction and (ii) enhance the (cost) efficiency of EU-wide climate policy by ensuring that no low-cost emissions reduction is left unexploited. Distributional implications remain a serious challenge to such an extension, but several mechanisms are available to alleviate them.

JEL-codes: F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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