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Gas under CBAM: Why Serbia’s transition fuel becomes a structural competitiveness risk Read More »

Gas under CBAM: Why Serbia’s transition fuel becomes a structural competitiveness risk

When the CBAM lens that has already reshaped thinking on green electricity is applied rigorously to natural gas, the conclusion is stark. Gas does not behave like a neutral transition fuel in a CBAM-constrained export economy. It behaves like a structural risk variable whose price volatility, emissions intensity, and perception by EU buyers increasingly determine […]

Wind as Serbia’s CBAM backbone: Why solar-heavy decarbonisation fails industrial buyers Read More »

Wind as Serbia’s CBAM backbone: Why solar-heavy decarbonisation fails industrial buyers

Serbia’s response to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is quietly drifting toward a solar-heavy narrative. This is understandable. Solar is modular, politically visible, quick to announce, and easy to frame in megawatts. But for CBAM-exposed industrial buyers, this approach is structurally flawed. It confuses installed capacity with delivered value and mistakes headline decarbonisation optics

Grid delays as a hidden CBAM tax: How 18 months can quietly wipe out Serbia’s export margins Read More »

Grid delays as a hidden CBAM tax: How 18 months can quietly wipe out Serbia’s export margins

In Serbia’s debate on CBAM exposure, grid infrastructure is still treated as a background constraint—important, but secondary. That framing is dangerously wrong. For CBAM-exposed exporters, grid delays function as an unlegislated carbon tax, imposed not by Brussels but by physics, timing, and procurement logic. Unlike formal CBAM charges, this tax does not appear on invoices.

CBAM and the unintended collision between Europe’s climate policy and its renewable-industrial base Read More »

CBAM and the unintended collision between Europe’s climate policy and its renewable-industrial base

The entry into force of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on January 1 is not occurring in isolation. Its effects extend well beyond traditional heavy industry and are beginning to intersect with the European Union’s renewable energy, battery and broader clean-technology value chains in ways that were insufficiently anticipated during the design phase of the

Carbon is the new currency: How trading schemes and green certificates will decide Serbia’s industrial winners in the EU market era Read More »

Carbon is the new currency: How trading schemes and green certificates will decide Serbia’s industrial winners in the EU market era

Carbon trading and green certificates are becoming the next decisive cost and competitiveness variables for South-East European energy systems and Serbia’s industrial base, sitting alongside CBAM, electricity pricing and decarbonisation CAPEX as core elements of the new regional market architecture. What was once a technical policy theme has now become a financial reality. Carbon prices,

CBAM as CAPEX driver: How carbon pricing will reshape see power utilities and coal fleets by 2030 Read More »

CBAM as CAPEX driver: How carbon pricing will reshape see power utilities and coal fleets by 2030

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is about to turn from a regulatory acronym into a direct price signal that reshapes capital investment for South-East European power utilities and coal-fired thermal plants. From 2026, electricity imported into the European Union will carry a carbon cost that mirrors the EU emissions trading price. For non-EU countries in the

Carbon costs at the door: How CBAM forces the Western Balkans to confront Its electricity reality Read More »

Carbon costs at the door: How CBAM forces the Western Balkans to confront Its electricity reality

Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is often discussed as a technical climate policy, but in truth it is one of the most powerful instruments ever aimed at redefining industrial, trade and energy behaviour. For the Western Balkans, CBAM does something more decisive still: it ends comfortable ambiguity. It makes electricity not simply a domestic policy

CBAM raises new questions for Western Balkans electricity trade with the EU Read More »

CBAM raises new questions for Western Balkans electricity trade with the EU

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism did not emerge from an environmental bureaucracy; it emerged from the heart of Europe’s industrial survival strategy. It is designed to prevent carbon leakage, protect European manufacturing and enforce a consistent climate discipline across competitive landscapes. Yet its implications extend beyond steel, cement and aluminium — they now reach directly

Exporting to the EU in the CBAM era: Green energy certificates and the new trade reality Read More »

Exporting to the EU in the CBAM era: Green energy certificates and the new trade reality

Green energy certificates and CBAM now sit at the heart of Europe’s industrial trade reality. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism was created not as a tariff instrument, but as a structural equaliser: Europe is decarbonising its industry under strict emissions pricing through the EU ETS, and CBAM ensures that imported products face a comparable carbon

Europe: EU plans major CBAM reform to protect industry and accelerate decarbonization Read More »

Europe: EU plans major CBAM reform to protect industry and accelerate decarbonization

The European Union is preparing a comprehensive reform of its carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) aimed at preventing companies from relocating production to countries with weaker environmental standards, while at the same time protecting the competitiveness of European industry. The reform seeks to balance climate ambition with industrial resilience, ensuring that decarbonization does not come

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