EU taxonomy and the principle of proportionality: Will increased costs of borrowing lead to more derogations from emission limits?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/21:10437080

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.wasteforum.cz/cisla/WF_4_2021_p217.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.wasteforum.cz/cisla/WF_4_2021_p217.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

EU taxonomy and the principle of proportionality: Will increased costs of borrowing lead to more derogations from emission limits?

Original language description

The European Union has introduced a new taxonomy, which prohibits banking institutions from financing coal-related projects, even when they are aimed at emission abatement. This fact could significantly increase the costs of compliance with the latest emission limits for large combustion plants. Considering that plants may be granted a derogation from achieving the emission limits due to disproportionate costs, the new taxonomy could unintentionally contribute to a higher number of derogations in Europe. With the least expensive option of external funding being unavailable, facilities would have to rely on other options. This paper examines the sensitivity of costs of compliance to changes in several loan attributes such as the interest rate, the length of the payback period and the share of the funds that needs to be borrowed. Czech data were used to make a case study on a hypothetical power plant that needs to retrofit its current technology. The results show that in some cases even a slight change to the interest rate or other parameters may change the outcome of a proportionality assessment. With sources of external financing uncertain, the costs of borrowing could easily prove to be prohibitive, leading to disproportionate costs compared to environmental effects of the regulation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF17_048%2F0007435" target="_blank" >EF17_048/0007435: Smart City - Smart Region - Smart Community</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Waste forum

ISSN

1804-0195

e-ISSN

1804-0195

Volume of the periodical

2021

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

217-226

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85126514944