This session will introduce the regulatory framework of the EU emission trading systems (EU ETS) and its potentially serious shortcomings. Participants will learn the basics of anomaly analysis and how to reverse-engineer CO2 ‘emission factors’ from various European public databases. The speakers will also explore other potential investigation pathways based on their learnings - including identifying suspicious verifiers, finding expert sources, and using environmental FOIs to obtain company emission reports.
The basis of this panel is a series of investigations published between 2021 and 2025 by OCCRP, IRPI, Investigace.cz, and RISE Project. To learn more, you can go here:
https://www.journalismfund.eu/carbon-deceit-ets
