Carbon constraints in the Mediterranean
Since 2005, European Union member states apply a binding system (European Union Emissions Trading Scheme) to energy-intensive industrial sectors (i.e. energy sector, mineral industry, production and transformation of ferrous metals and pulp production). This measure does not apply to Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, which are not on the list of countries that have historically contributed to the global rise in greenhouse gases. However, since 1st January 2012, this system generates impact on international aviation and applies to airlines from the Southern river.
Hence, Europe’s ambitions to reduce its energy consumption, emissions increase of Southern countries, its intention of extending the quota system on European emissions to international activities, the question of carbon leakage, and the imminent end of use of CDM credits on the European carbon (except those coming from projects registered before 2013), all illustrate that we need to think about this problem on a Euro-Mediterranean scale.
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