All Position Statements articles
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Position StatementDynamic allocation in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme
Between April and June of this year, the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Authority carried out a baseline data collection exercise to gather historic activity level data from UK ETS participant sites, for the period 2019-2023. The average activity level during this baseline period will be used to set the rate of free allocation a site will receive in the second free allocation period (2027-2030).
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Position StatementLinking the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes
UK chemical sites compete in a global market, whilst facing comparatively higher energy and climate related policy cost. The UK’s chemical assets have dwindled over the last decade, most notably we have lost many of the facilities producing major chemical building blocks and polymers.
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Position StatementElectrifying Chemical Production
Whilst we welcome support through the existing British Industry Supercharger and proposed British Industry Competitiveness Scheme, these only fractionally reduce the electricity price to selected sectors and do not provide the level of reduction required to spur widespread industrial electrification.
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Position StatementBiogas for Industrial Decarbonisation
Following the EU’s lead the UK could quicky establish a market-based demand for biogas, reducing the need for public subsidy and allowing UK ETS operators to reduce their emission footprint. Such a move would boost UK industrial competitiveness and liberate public and private finance to invest in UK growth and decarbonisation.
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Position StatementCircular chemicals and the UK Emissions Trading Scheme
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Authority is considering responses to its consultation of summer last year on the integration of greenhouse gas removals into the UK ETS.
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Position StatementRepurposing the Climate Change Levy in an era of decarbonisation
Since its introduction in 2001, the CCL has been instrumental in driving energy efficiency in the UK’s industrial sectors, but as we focus on the challenge of industrial decarbonisation, it is becoming clear that the CCL acts a blocker to investment in net zero manufacturing.
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Position StatementExtending the UK Emissions Trading Scheme Cap Beyond 2030
Our sites can decarbonise if we create the right investment conditions for green production here in the UK, namely access to clean and competitively priced energy, together with policy that allows a clean manufacturer to pass through its green premium to the consumer.
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ArticleEnergy and chemicals: Why it matters
This briefing document sets out why energy prices are fundamental to the survival of our industry, a key driver in investment decisions and key asks from the sector.
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Position StatementUK Carbon Pricing and Border Adjustment
How UK carbon policy could be a driver of net zero investment, helping to secure the UK’s position as a global leader in industrial decarbonisation.
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Position StatementThe future of the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund
The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) outlines key recommendations for the structuring of a new funding scheme for industrial decarbonisation, that would maximise impact and ensure the UK’s industrial heartlands can transition to a low-carbon future.
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Position StatementEnergy and Climate Change
The chemical industry’s products and technologies will provide the foundation for net zero. We create the advanced materials that seed new low-carbon industries and drive green growth in the UK, but chemistry is energy-intensive and even in normal times the cost of energy is a challenge for UK manufacturers.
