{"id":1519,"date":"2023-03-28T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:41:42","slug":"big-european-polluters-made-a-windfall-profit-from-carbon-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/03\/28\/big-european-polluters-made-a-windfall-profit-from-carbon-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Big European polluters got a windfall from carbon credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Europe&#039;s biggest polluters are reaping windfalls from selling carbon credits. Their profits are an unintended consequence of the generous subsidies that form a key element of the regional carbon market.<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish oil and gas company, a Romanian aluminum producer and two Finnish industrial companies sold credits worth a total of nearly 120 million euros, or more than $129 million, last year, according to an analysis of company disclosures. In the coming months, a wave of further sales with a potential value of tens of millions of euros is expected to be published.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Europe\u2019s biggest polluters are reaping windfall profits from selling carbon credits. Their profits are an unintended consequence of generous subsidies that form a key element of the region\u2019s carbon market. A Spanish oil and gas company, a Romanian aluminum producer and two Finnish industrial companies sold credits worth a total of almost \u20ac120 billion last year, according to an analysis of publicly available company data.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}