International Energy and Climate Policy - Emissions Trading

INTERACT

A multinational research project analysing interaction between different climate policy instruments in European Member States, and making recommendations for EU climate policy

The INTERACT project was conducted over a two-year period between March 2001 and March 2003. The project was co-ordinated by SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex (UK), in collaboration with: the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Developpement (CIRED), and the Energy Policy Group (EPG) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). SPRU was responsible for the overall direction of the project, while each Partner was primarily responsible for empirical research within their own Member State. The Partner institutes in each participating Member State selected a minimum of three national climate policy instruments, examined their potential interactions with the EU ETS and developed a number of policy recommendations. The Table  summarises the general categories under which the selected instruments fell. Note that there is frequently more than one instrument within each general category.

Types of policy instruments examined in each case study

See also pages about:

• Implications of the EU ETS for policy interaction
• Policy recommendations
• Publications

See for more information the project site or contact Jos Sijm