Call To Hurry Up Phase Iii Commitment

摘要

While Environment Minister Phil Woolas heaped praise on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS) for its "remarkable progress", the Carbon Trust has warned that commitment on phase III of the system is needed sooner rather than later.rnThe UK results for the first phase of the EU ETS, which ended in December 2007, have been published.rnLast year, the UK had a shortfall of 27.6M allowances, meaning permits had to be bought from elsewhere in the EU. Across phase I of the scheme the UK had a shortfall of 88M allowances - a reflection of the fact that the caps set on emissions for installations in the UK were more realistic than the over allocation seen in some other countries during the first phase. Woolas praised the robust