Author profile: Fiona Smith

The Emissions Trading Scheme: EU Leadership, Problems and Decision-Making

Fiona Smith • Dec 9 2010 • Essays

It is now widely recognised that climate change is affecting the earth’s atmosphere and that governments must act quickly and efficiently in order to halt this. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme has been held up as the centrepiece of EU legislation, allowing the EU to perform a leadership role globally by initiating the world’s largest multi-country, multi-sector greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme ever seen.