The EU Emission Trading System, the EU’s main mechanism to disincentivise CO2 emissions, seems not to have had the desired results. Major industrial groups, often with the support of their own governments, profit from systemic weaknesses while continuing to produce energy using fossil fuels.
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EU borders agency Frontex has given shady security firms sweeping access to officials, the Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels-based NGO has said. Some 91 out of the 125 lobbyists, or 72 percent, Frontex met in 2018 and 2019 had not subscribed to the.
German energy giant RWE has used the Energy Charter Treaty to claim compensation from the Netherlands over its planned phase-out of coal from the country’s electricity mix by 2030.
The arbitration claim for €1.4 billion in compensation was denounced by climate campaigners as yet more proof that the treaty, an international investment agreement signed in 1994, is unfit for supporting the shift away from fossil energy.
“It’s outrageous that fossil fuel firms can use this powerful treaty to obstruct the clean energy transition,” said Wendel Trio, the director of Climate Action Network Europe.
“It’s high time for European countries to withdraw from this dangerous agreement and don’t waste any more time in futile attempts to reform it,” he added.