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Saving EU climate policy

Nature Climate Change volume 2, pages 392–393 (2012)Cite this article

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Market-based mechanisms to tackle climate change have many advocates, but economic conditions are making emissions trading schemes hard to implement and sustain, explains Sonja van Renssen.

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Figure 1: The EU carbon price has plummeted in the past year, from a temporary surge in April 2011 on the back of the phase-out of German nuclear power, to under €10 a tonne over the past six months as the reality of an oversupply of carbon allowances in the market has taken its toll.

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