It is essential to seize this opportunity to support Italian households and businesses through the energy transition.
Europe is creating fiscal space for the transition. How can Italy make use of it?
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MFF proposal risks weakening the Social Climate Fund’s promise to vulnerable households
Integrating the Social Climate Fund (SCF) into the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is not problematic. The decisive issue is under which conditions this integration takes place. In its current form, the MFF proposal significantly weakens the SCF’s ability to deliver on its original purpose: providing targeted support to vulnerable households affected by the new emissions trading system ETS2.
€85bn delayed: 19 EU countries still haven’t filed their social climate plans a year on
A civil society coalition launches public ‘Leave fossil fuels behind, not people!’ petition and demands member state action on the first anniversary of missed deadline to apply for Social Climate Fund financing
Dilution doesn’t fix pollution: ETS2 must work for people and climate
The European Commission planted a carbon bomb in its proposal to reform the supply control mechanism within the EU’s carbon pricing scheme for road transport and buildings. EU decisionmakers meeting on June 10 must mitigate the damage of the proposal and take the chance to increase earmarked funding for vulnerable households in the energy transition
EU ETS 2025: Slowing progress and divergence from 2030 targets
Emissions from the four sectors covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in the EU-27 remained largely unchanged in 2025 (-1.7%).
ETS Talk: Carbon pricing (ETS2) and the Social Climate Fund, where do we stand?
On 27 April, three experts gathered for the latest ETS Talk to discuss ETS2, the EU’s new carbon pricing system for transport and heating, where we currently stand, and the impacts of the ongoing fossil fuel crisis.Â