Press
Statement
Evidence
shows EU Emissions Trading Scheme is Fraudsters’ Paradise, cannot be reformed
Emissions Trading is part of the
climate problem, not solution, says a new report
Ahead of
the European Parliament’s vote today on the European Commission’s proposal to ‘reform’ the EU Emissions Trading
Scheme (EU ETS) and vindicating the
long held view that carbon trade is not and cannot the part of solution as it
is part of the problem in responding to market failure led climate crisis,
a new 16 page attached report has revealed that problems with EU ETS are inherent, systemic
and unresolvable.
ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), New
Delhi endorses the recommendation of the report about this failed system of
emissions trading which is further delaying real action for reducing emissions
in Europe in particular and globally in general.
The report “EU ETS myth busting: why it can’t be reformed and shouldn’t be replicated” has debunked the claims made in defence of the EU ETS. The list of the organisation who have co-published the report is given below.
It has underlined that decrease in emissions from 2008 and 2010 in Europe was related to the economic crisis and not to emissions trading. There has been no real shift in the way energy is produced or used by the industries in Europe.
The report “EU ETS myth busting: why it can’t be reformed and shouldn’t be replicated” has debunked the claims made in defence of the EU ETS. The list of the organisation who have co-published the report is given below.
It has underlined that decrease in emissions from 2008 and 2010 in Europe was related to the economic crisis and not to emissions trading. There has been no real shift in the way energy is produced or used by the industries in Europe.
It denounces the idea that emissions trading is an or can be an incentive to promote investment in cleaner energy solutions.
The
report states that “The EU ETS is a cumbersome, unresponsivemechanism which has
failed to achieve its own objectives”. It adds, “The EU ETS is a
Fraudsters’ Paradise, fostering tax
evasion,
fraud, and other criminal activities.”
Now the time has come for the Euorpean Parlaiment and the EU to acknowledge that the emissiongs trading as a solution has not worked.
European Parliament’s vote today on the European Commission’s proposal to ‘reform’ the EU Emissions Trading
Scheme (EU ETS) should keep in mind how such schemes are being used in Indian
national capital to bulldoze heavily pollution Chinese technology based waste
incinerator technologies in the residential and ecologically sensitive areas.
It
is noteworthy that one of the European MPs from Belgium was
deeply concerned about the New Delhi's waste based power plant which is
registered with Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board. This
MP was in touch with TWA for several months to understand the bitter
opposition to it.
TWA urges European
parliamentarians to adopt its original
position against carbon trade which it chose to dilute under US influence for adoption
o Kyoto Protocol and work for real solutions and genuinely green technologies.
For
more information contact:
- Hannah Mowat (FERN): +32 48 50 25 432
- Lyda Fernanda (TNI): +31 685086340
- Belén Balanyá (CEO): +31 633090386
-Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 9818089660,
- Hannah Mowat (FERN): +32 48 50 25 432
- Lyda Fernanda (TNI): +31 685086340
- Belén Balanyá (CEO): +31 633090386
-Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 9818089660,
E-mail: gopalkrishna1715@gmail.com Web: www.toxicswatch.org
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