{"id":12887,"date":"2011-02-24T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.i4ce.org\/publication\/closing-the-door-to-fraud-in-the-eu-ets\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:50:39","slug":"climate-brief-n4-closing-the-door-to-fraud-in-the-eu-ets","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/staging.i4ce.org\/en\/publication\/climate-brief-n4-closing-the-door-to-fraud-in-the-eu-ets\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the door to fraud in the EU ETS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2011 cyber-criminals managed to steal allowances belonging to companies participating in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) by attacking several EU-Member States\u2019 national emissions registries. While these attacks did not affect\u00a0 the\u00a0 environmental\u00a0 integrity\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 EU\u00a0 ETS,\u00a0 they\u00a0 are\u00a0 the\u00a0 latest\u00a0 in\u00a0 a\u00a0 series whereby\u00a0 fraudsters\u00a0 have\u00a0 targeted\u00a0 the\u00a0 carbon\u00a0 market. As\u00a0 such,\u00a0 they\u00a0 have\u00a0 posed\u00a0 a direct\u00a0 challenge\u00a0 to\u00a0 the\u00a0 confidence\u00a0 of\u00a0 market\u00a0 participants \u00a0and\u00a0 the\u00a0 reputation\u00a0 of\u00a0 the EU\u2019s\u00a0 pioneering\u00a0 scheme.\u00a0 This\u00a0 Brief\u00a0 seeks\u00a0 to\u00a0 explain what\u00a0 has\u00a0 happened,\u00a0 why,\u00a0 and what is being done to restore confidence in the market. 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