"Don't touch my carbon revenue!"

Focus on incentives to anticipate the next move in the EU carbon market

"Don't touch my carbon revenue!"
"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue." - Thomas Paine

It didn’t take long before many EU governments began to rebel against the European Commission (EC) proposal to sell €20 billion of EUA’s from the Market Stability Reserve (MSR).

Once governments get a taste for a new and growing source of tax revenue, its very hard for them to see it go down.