April 25, 2018 – The European Union and China officially launched the three-year long second phase of their emissions trading co-operation programme. In this programme, the EU provides funding amounting to €10 million in an effort to help the world’s top emitting nation to develop and launch its national cap-and-trade system. The first phase, which ended last year, was focused on supporting the development of the pilot emissions trading schemes.

The Track-2-Dialogue in 2022: Toward COP27
In the first weeks of the new year, the Track-2-Dialogue (T2D) working groups 1 to 4 dealt with the content-related and organisational re-orientation of their fields of work.