The British Cement Association (BCA) has welcomes the agreement reached between the European Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, and the 2465 European Commission on the energy and climate change package.
Dr Pal Chana, BCA chief executive, said: “Our biggest fear was that in the rush to get a deal under the French Presidency, industry would be left behind and critical sectors such as cement would be exposed to unfair international competition that simply moved manufacturing to non-carbon constrained countries: so called carbon leakage.”
Chana said the agreement reached maintains the environmental integrity of the climate change objectives while moving to a level playing field for energy intensive industries that are open to international competition and thus exposed to carbon leakage.
He added: “From 2013 Europe will have to operate within a new, much reduced, carbon cap regardless of whether carbon allowances are sold at auction or granted free of charge. This can only be good for the fight against climate change and encouraging for industry which has been given some degree of certainty that they have been seeking.”
Dr Pal Chana, BCA chief executive, said: “Our biggest fear was that in the rush to get a deal under the French Presidency, industry would be left behind and critical sectors such as cement would be exposed to unfair international competition that simply moved manufacturing to non-carbon constrained countries: so called carbon leakage.”
Chana said the agreement reached maintains the environmental integrity of the climate change objectives while moving to a level playing field for energy intensive industries that are open to international competition and thus exposed to carbon leakage.
He added: “From 2013 Europe will have to operate within a new, much reduced, carbon cap regardless of whether carbon allowances are sold at auction or granted free of charge. This can only be good for the fight against climate change and encouraging for industry which has been given some degree of certainty that they have been seeking.”
