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FEATURE: UK ETS cost containment lever may look attractive to EU – but remains untested

Published 13:44 on February 26, 2026 / Last updated at 13:44 on February 26, 2026 / , and / EMEA (Compliance Markets & Taxes, Europe), Insights (Features), Net Zero Transition (Industrial Decarbonisation)

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Mounting political pressure to ease prices on the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is fuelling suggestions that the bloc establish a UK-style cost-containment lever – even though the British model has been criticised for failing to act as an effective safety valve.
Mounting political pressure to ease prices on the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is fuelling suggestions that the bloc establish a UK-style cost-containment lever – even though the British model has been criticised for failing to act as an effective safety valve.


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