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New EU ETS Phase 4 rules temporarily puncture waterbed

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Matters Arising to this article was published on 25 September 2019

An Author Correction to this article was published on 15 February 2019

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The new rules of the EU ETS will fundamentally change its character. The long-term cap on emissions will become a function of past and future market outcomes, temporarily puncturing the waterbed and having retroactive impacts on GHG abatement from overlapping policies.

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Fig. 1: The MSR in three operational states.
Fig. 2: Cumulative effect of abating one ton of CO2e on long-term emissions reduction for Phases 2–4.

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  • 15 February 2019

    In the version of this Comment originally published, the scenario in which the market stability reserve (MSR) takes in allowances for seven years was calculated using incorrect x and y values in the formula described in the caption of Fig. 2; the red bars in Fig. 2 have now been updated. In the sentence “each subsequent year the number of allowances auctioned is reduced by 24% (12% after 2024) of the size of the bank” the year should have been 2023. These errors have now been corrected.

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I thank J. Jarke, S. Petrick and M. Willner for helpful comments.

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Perino, G. New EU ETS Phase 4 rules temporarily puncture waterbed. Nature Clim Change 8, 262–264 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0120-2

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