Reuters: The government will take hefty revenues from its first carbon emissions permit auction on Wednesday rather than earmark the money for consumers or the climate it aims to protect, analysts and lobby groups said. Skip related content The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will auction 4 million permits out of a total 84 million from the second phase of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which runs from 2008-12. It plans to auction a further 25 …