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The EU's New Carbon Safety Valve Is Designed to Leak
6/17/2026
The EU just agreed to double the size of its ETS2 emergency release mechanism — and called it a feature. Last week, EU negotiators struck a provisional deal to raise the price-trigger threshold for ETS2's stability reserve to €45 per metric ton of CO2, up from a lower prior level…
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