The opinion addresses Europe’s persistent innovation commercialisation gap: while the EU excels in research and patents, it struggles to turn scientific excellence into globally leading companies.
Recent natural disasters have showed the limitations of insurance markets. This is an own-initiative opinion intended to deliver concrete policy proposals to add an EU-wide layer of pooled/solidarity funds to insurance schemes, drawing on the evidence and proposals of the joint paper by EIOPA and the ECB Towards a European system for natural catastrophe risk management.
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is the key policy tool for achieving the EU's climate targets. The existing ETS (ETS1) aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and energy installations, aircraft operators and maritime transport by setting a price on carbon through a cap-and-trade system.
The Commission's ETS revision proposal is expected to address several issues, notably the role of carbon dioxide removals, the expansion of the current scope to additional sectorsand GHGs not yet covered by the ETS, new rules on how to account for non-permanent carbon capture and utilisation, and the risk of carbon leakage in sectors not covered by the carbon border adjustment mechanism.
