ENVI Council: "On ETS1, our ambition is to reach a balanced compromise in December" (D. O'Brien)

“Our ambition is still to reach a balanced compromise at our next Environment Council meeting in December. And the Irish Presidency will work intensively with colleagues and with the Commission over the next two months to prepare for that,” said Darragh O'Brien, Ireland’s Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, on 12 October 2026.

Following the first formal debate on ETS during the EU Environment Council held in Luxembourg, he stressed: “We've been able to close off two files within us on the market stability reserve and benchmarking. It shows what actually can be done.”

Thanks to this “important milestone”, the ETS timeline set out therein calls for final adoption of this file by the first quarter of 2027, Wopke Hoekstra, Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth…