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This week's issue reveals how the EU Parliament is wavering in its support for withdrawing hundreds of millions of CO2 permits just weeks ahead of a crunch vote. Also, why analysts think the EU is more likely to agree a deeper CO2 reduction target if it forces western member states to shoulder more of the cost.

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This week's issue reveals how Denmark poured cold water on growing calls to withdraw hundreds of millions of permits from the EU carbon market, plus a guest commentary from E3G's Sanjeev Kumar dismissing the case against setting aside the permits.

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This week's issue features how spreading the cost of emission reductions more fairly among member states could help clinch a deal to set a deeper CO2-cutting EU target, plus a guest commentary from legal experts Jos Cozijnsen and Annie Petsonk about why banking Kyoto permits beyond 2012 will not need to mean diluted action to tackle climate change.

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This week's issue examines how the political deadlock over deepening the EU's emission reduction target might be resolved by allowing eastern states to keep hundreds of millions more Kyoto carbon permits. It also looks at why airlines might already be earning a windfall from a passenger surcharge brought in days after an EU law came into force to regulate aviation emissions.

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This week's issue looks at exchange-traded CO2 permit volume, which climbed 25 pct last year despite the units halving in value. It also examines why permit demand from airlines is not expected to lift prices from near-record lows despite the sector becoming the second biggest buyers in the EU cap-and-trade system.

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In this week's issue the highest EU court rules in favour of the Commission when deciding whether including aviation in its carbon market was legal, while a European Parliamentary committee gives the Commission the political signal it wanted by passing a bill that will allow it to intervene to prop up prices. Plus, EU report targets large hydro CO2 credits; Airlines count the cost of ETS inclusion; U.N bans Lithuania from carbon trade; Estonia approves 2008-12 CO2 allocation plan; German court finds six guilty in carbon fraud; UK launches EUA auction platform tender and a guest commentary by Folker Franz of Business Europe on the implications of the EC withholding allowances.

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Featuring a look ahead to next week's crunch 48 hours for the EU ETS, and why the Commission's call for a binding 2030 EU emission target could mean a tightening of the ETS cap. Plus, a guest commentary from Emmanuel Fages of Societe Generale on the impact of the landmark Durban Package for the EU carbon market.

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This week's issue looks at why some analysts think the EU market will defy normal logic to withstand further price pressure from the sale of 300 million CO2 permits from a new entrants reserve,  and examines the EU's push to persuade UN regulators to rule on coal power offsets so it won't have to consider a ban itself.

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This week's issue looks at the long-awaited sale of 300 million EU carbon permits to help fund clean technology projects, and outlines why a U.S. trade embargo could hamper EU companies looking to meet their emission caps.
Plus, a guest commentary by Mark Lewis of Deutsche Bank on why he sees the EU carbon market long until 2020 unless political action is taken.

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In this week's issue we examine why Brussels is powerless to stop a collapse in EU carbon prices as a deluge of permits looms large, how this has reignited a debate about whether lawmakers should act to curb such supply and why action will come too late to prevent further cutbacks across trading desks.
Plus, a guest commentary by CDC Climat on why tackling government debt and addressing climate change are part of the same struggle.

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