by Bryony Worthington | Dec 23, 2015 | Europe, UK
This is my last blog as Executive Director of Sandbag. From January I’ll be leaving to take up a new role at the international charity the Environmental Defense Fund. I’m viewing this new chapter as I imagine a parent might their child going off to college: I’m going... by Aleksandra Mirowicz | Dec 22, 2015 | CCS, Coal, Uncategorised
We hope you are spending your last days before Christmas as busily as we are! Last weekend Sandbag was invited by the Polish Economic Forum to Karpacz, on the Polish-Czech border, to speak about low carbon technologies for industrial growth. The agreement in Paris... by Alexandru Luta | Dec 21, 2015 | Carbon Pricing, Europe
A recent report by the consultancy Ecofys for the European steel association Eurofer suggests steel companies face costs of €28/tonne of steel to comply with ETS obligations by 2030. However, at Sandbag we are sceptical that the proposed revision to the... by Bryony Worthington | Dec 12, 2015 | Uncategorised
[This blog is adapted from an article published in the Huffington Post on 11.12.2015] Europe is an old economy. We're industrialised, highly capitalised and largely privatised. To achieve change we need laws and policies in a way that other major economies, like... by Dave Jones | Dec 11, 2015 | Coal, UK
The UK capacity market auction designed to ensure adequate electricity supply is available in 2019-2020 were announced today. Sandbag has produced a short briefing here, analysing the results. Contracts worth over £1bn in total have been awarded with...