EurActiv: The European carbon market, like its peers across energy and commodities, appears to be pinning its hopes on a big-picture economic recovery and ignoring a weak demand outlook closer to home. Background: Since 2005, some 10,000 large industrial plants in the EU have been required to buy and sell permits to release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This so-called ’emissions trading scheme’ (EU ETS; see EurActiv LinksDossier) enables companies that exceed individual CO2 …