📢🌐 One Carbon Price, Unequal Capacity to Invest: Why the ETS Investment Booster needs a fairer approach to Europe's industrial transition: 📖 carbonbites.beehiiv.com/p/on… 🇪🇺 As EU environment ministers meet today to discuss the future of the EU ETS, one question deserves particular attention: ⁉️ Will the proposed ETS Investment Booster help close Europe's industrial investment gaps - or risk becoming a “Rich Booster” for those already best positioned to invest? The European Commission's proposal to mobilise 400 million EU ETS allowances for industrial decarbonisation is an important opportunity. But how these resources are allocated may be just as important as their overall size. Europe has a common carbon price, but not a level playing field when it comes to investment capacity, access to finance, affordable low-carbon energy or infrastructure. The proposed solidarity reserve is a recognition of these differences. Yet its limited size, short protection period and first in, first served approach risk reinforcing the very disparities it should help overcome. In my new essay, I argue for a stronger common solidarity reserve and allocation rules that make industrial transformation possible where investment barriers are greatest. The real measure of success will not be how quickly we distribute allowances, but whether we enable investments that would otherwise never happen. #EUETS #InvestmentBooster #IndustrialDecarbonisation #EUCompetitiveness #EUETS #CarbonMarkets #ClimateGovernance #EUClimatePolicy #ParisAgreement #KOBiZE #CAKE #IOSPIB