MEPs and Member States of the European Union reached an agreement on the night of Saturday and Sunday on a vast reform of the European carbon market, the centerpiece of the climate plan of the Twenty-Seven. This agreement strongly raises the ambitions of the current European carbon market, acknowledges the progressive abolition of free “rights to pollute” allocated to industrialists, and provides for the payment of emissions linked to the heating of buildings and road transport, with a capped price. so as not to burden households, according to a press release from Parliament, taken up by AFP.