{"id":380650,"date":"2025-05-29T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=380650"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:58:04","slug":"eus-ets-2-climate-tax-a-costly-green-nightmare-hits-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=380650","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s ETS-2 Climate Tax: A Costly Green Nightmare Hits in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By P Gosselin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning 2027, EU citizens will see their everyday lives getting much more expensive and painful\u2026 thanks to an EU-wide climate tax: ETS-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hans Labohm: \u201cIt is frightening that we are subjecting our economy to this madness.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFuel prices and energy bills will rise, while our freedom of choice will be increasingly restricted,\u201d reports German TKP blog here<\/strong><\/a>.  All because European citizens will be paying additional European climate taxes soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is just the beginning says former MEP Rob Roos<\/strong>: \u2018Now it\u2019s about houses and cars. Later, this tax will be extended to foodstuffs such as dairy products and meat, clothing and flying. The CO2 budget could be the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going green in Europe means going expensive \u2013 and unfree. The EU\u2019s new climate tax, ETS-2, set to begin in 2027, will expand the existing ETS-1 system, which requires heavy industry and energy producers to buy CO2 certificates. Next, fuel and energy suppliers will have to purchase certificates for their customers\u2019 emissions. The result? Higher prices for driving, heating, and electricity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies will simply pass on the cost of CO2 certificates to consumers, making everything much more expensive and citizens poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new ETS-2 system was created as part of the 2023 revisions of the ETS Directive, and the amending directive creating the new scheme came into force on June 8, 2023. Monitoring and reporting of emissions began in 2024, with the first emissions reports due by April 30, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of pain, no impact on global climate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, the European Union\u2019s share of global greenhouse gas emissions fell to just 6.0% and so limiting CO2 further will have barely a negligible climate impact overall climate globally. The real impact will be felt by EU citizens, and it\u2019s not going to be painful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intensifying climate madness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economist and journalist Hans Labohm calls the European emissions trading system an \u201ceconomic instrument of torture\u201d that will suck the life out of Europe\u2019s society. \u2018It is frightening that we are subjecting our economy to this madness,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labohm warns of rising energy prices, inflation and a mass migration of companies from Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany households have to cut back on food, care or housing because they can\u2019t pay their energy bills,\u2019 Labohm adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read full article here<\/a> (German). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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