Manipulation of European Union emission trading systems (ETS) by the buy, bank, burn program compensates unregulated emissions while regulated sectors carry a large part of the burden. This distorts the balance between regulated firms and non-regulated projects, so parties outside the EU ETS can be virtuous at the cost of others.
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The authors thank A. Callahan-Brandt for textual corrections. R.G. thanks the Research Council of Norway for financial support.
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Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K. Climate-conscious consumers and the buy, bank, burn program. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 431–433 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0482-0
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