德国化工行业严厉批评总理弗里德里希·默茨，据报道他敦促欧盟委员会推进欧盟扩大的碳定价计划，称该计划目前的形式是欧洲工业的“掘墓人”。
Germany’s chemical industry has sharply criticised Chancellor Friedrich Merz after he reportedly urged the European Commission to press ahead with the European Union’s expanded carbon-pricing scheme, calling the plan in its current form the “gravedigger” of European industry.
该计划——即欧盟排放交易体系，称为ETS2——将对汽油、柴油和取暖燃料的碳排放设定全欧盟统一的碳价，原定于2027年启动，现已推迟至2028年。
The scheme – the EU Emissions Trading System, known as ETS2 – which would set an EU-wide price on carbon emissions from petrol, diesel and heating fuels, was originally due to begin in 2027 but has been postponed to 2028.
据德国周刊报道，默茨在致欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩的信中，拒绝进一步修改或推迟。
In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Merz rejected further changes or delays.
他写道：“我指望欧盟委员会在排放交易问题上保持既定路线，从而给欧洲企业和家庭规划确定性。”默茨表示，这不仅关乎气候政策，更“关乎德国和欧洲工业的未来”。
“I am counting on the European Commission to stay the course on emissions trading and thereby give European companies and households planning certainty,” he wrote, according to German weekly Merz said that the issue was not merely about climate policy but “about the future of industry in Germany and Europe".
然而，德国化工行业协会（VCI）首席执行官沃尔夫冈·格罗塞·恩特鲁普表示，碳交易计划将“成为欧洲工业的掘墓人”。
However, according to Wolfgang Grosse Entrup, CEO of Germany’s chemical industry association, the VCI, the carbon trading scheme will "become the gravedigger of industry in Europe".
该组织担心，全欧盟统一的碳价将增加德国企业已承担的成本，德国企业自2021年起已对交通和取暖燃料缴纳国家碳税。
The organisation fears that an EU-wide carbon price would add to costs already borne by German firms, which have paid a national carbon levy on transport and heating fuels since 2021.
世界领导人在第31届联合国气候变化大会（Cop31）上开始会谈，但大国领导人缺席。德国现行碳价为每吨二氧化碳55至65欧元，计划于2027年冻结，随后由ETS2取代。
World leaders begin talks at Cop31 climate conference but big names missing Germany’s existing carbon price stands at between €55 and €65 per tonne of CO2 this year and is due to be frozen in 2027 before ETS2 replaces it.
由于其他几个成员国没有可比的国家征税，德国企业担心，如果欧盟计划进一步滑坡，它们将遭受持久的竞争劣势。
Because several other member states have no comparable national levy, German companies fear they would suffer a lasting competitive disadvantage if the EU scheme slipped further.
包括巴斯夫在内的大型化工生产商认为，严格的欧洲气候规则已使它们相较于中国和美国的竞争对手处于劣势。COP31在气候与财政压力下开幕VCI措辞异常直白，反映出业界担忧额外的碳成本可能加速工厂关闭、投资削减以及生产转移至欧洲以外地区。
Major chemical producers, including BASF, argue that stringent European climate rules already place them at a disadvantage against competitors in China and the United States. COP31 opens under climate and finance pressure The VCI’s unusually blunt language reflects anxiety that additional carbon costs could accelerate plant closures, investment cuts and the relocation of production outside Europe.
欧盟委员会提出对ETS1进行改革，将在2030年后放缓排放上限的收紧速度，并延长与脱碳投资挂钩的免费配额。
The European Commission has proposed reforms to ETS1 that would slow the reduction of the emissions cap after 2030 and extend free allowances tied to decarbonisation investment.
包括气候行动网络和碳市场观察在内的气候团体表示，该提案削弱了减排激励，而业界坚持认为，若无此类支持，欧洲生产将无法竞争。
Climate groups including the Climate Action Network and Carbon Market Watch say the proposal weakens the incentive to cut emissions, while industry insists that without such support, European production cannot compete.
默茨还为欧盟现有的发电厂和重工业排放交易体系ETS1进行了辩护，称其为“一个运行良好、基于市场的体系，我们绝不能对其产生质疑。”他辩称，能源和工业企业已围绕可靠的碳价信号制定了投资计划。
Merz also defended the EU’s existing emissions trading system for power plants and heavy industry, ETS1, calling it “a well-functioning, market-based system that we must not call into question.”He argued that energy and industrial companies had built investment plans around reliable carbon-price signals.
默茨的表态之际，多个欧盟成员国政府因担心燃料和取暖成本上升，正推动再次推迟。
Merz’s intervention comes as several EU governments, concerned about higher fuel and heating costs, press for another delay.