SETatWork - Sustainable Energy Technology at Work
FREE Roundtable Event
Industry Supporting Schemes and Instruments
for post-2012 Emission Trading Scheme
Tuesday 12 October 2010,
Brussels, Belgium
10:00-13:00 Industry support
14:00-17:00 Access to project-based carbon credits
Background | Scope | Anticipated Outcomes | Target Audience | Presentations and Minutes
This Free Roundtable Event of high level EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) stakeholders took place in Brussels on 12 October 2010 to help develop recommendations to the European Commission on the future strategy for the Emissions Trading Scheme in Europe.
The Roundtable consisted of two sessions; the first, in the morning, discussed Industry support, while the second, in the afternoon, discussed Access to project based carbon credits.
The Roundtable provided an excellent opportunity for organisations representing key industries to share their ETS experience and requirements. By joining us they have helped shape the SETatWork Strategy report on the scope and direction of the scheme, as well as how to enable industries across Europe to engage more productively in carbon trading while remaining competitive in global markets.
The Roundtable Background, Scope, etc are outlined below:
Background | Scope | Anticipated Outcomes | Target Audience | Presentations and Minutes
SETatWork is supported by the European Commission (EC) project under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Its activities are targetted at members the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) throughout Europe during 2008-2010. The overall scope of the funded programme of activities is to provide support to EU-ETS member industries in addressing the needs for improving performance on climate change and to facilitate access to carbon credits from CDM activities.
An essential activity of the work programme agreed with the EC is the development of a set of recommendations on the future EU strategy for development of the EU-ETS.
Based on the outcome of the SETatWork roundtable event in Brussels in March 2010 and the project activity on recommendations to the EU on future strategy for the carbon market and EU-ETS, it appeared valuable to invite a selected group of stakeholders to a Roundtable event to discuss specific initiatives and topics.
The Roundtable event collected and discussed recommendations to the EU Commission on current and future needs in ETS industries in order to achieve significant improvements in environmental performance of manufacturing with respect to carbon intensity.
The objective of this event was to address two core activities identified in the dialogue with SETatWork stakeholder groups:
- Support schemes for EU ETS industry members, national / sectorial or common for EU
- Facilitation service between buyers of project based carbon credits and project owners
The outcome of the roundtable discussions will form part of SETatWork's recommendations to the EU Commission on the following topics:
- Propose technical and financial schemes and tools targeting EU ETS members in order to facilitate a smooth penetration of energy saving technologies in the manufacturing industry.
- Define scope and core services for a transparent and simplified access to the global market for project based carbon credits for all members of the EU ETS.
- EU ETS member organisations
- Industry associations representing EU-ETS industries and
- Equipment suppliers to industry
The event took place on Tuesday 12th October, 2010 and was split into two sessions:
- 10:00–13:00: Session on Industry support
- 14:00–17:00: Session on Access to project based carbon credits
Minutes from the meeting are currently being prepared and will be added to this page soon...
| Welcome and Introduction |
Introduction to the SETatWork Project View the Presentation (410 Kb PDF) Find out more at: www.setatwork.eu |
| Setting the stage for EU-ETS post 2012 View the Presentation (49 Kb PDF) |
| Session 1: Industry support |
| Shaping industry support schemes for the EU-ETS View the Presentation (326 Kb PDF) |
| Recommendations to the European Commission |
| Session 1: Wrap up |
| Session 2: Simplified access to project based carbon credits |
| Need for transparency in the global carbon market |
| Simplified access to project based carbon credits for EU-ETS and technology providers View the Presentation (46 Kb PDF) |
| Recommendations to the European Commission |
| Session 2: Wrap up |