As the new European Commission begins its mandate and ahead of the Commission Clean Industrial Deal being published, Heart Aerospace was proud to join this coalition of Clean Tech companies pushing for a boost in demand for clean technologies. To ensure #Europe remains competitive in the global race, the #EU needs to: ✅ Figure out new ways to fund and manage clean technology and energy projects and make it easier for innovative SMEs to access EU Funding Instruments (like the EU Innovation Fund) ✅ Make it easier for banks to invest in riskier projects and for pension funds to support ✅ Make the market for certain types of investments, like securitization and non-investment grade debt, stronger #CleanTech #CleanIndustrialDeal #ClimateAction #Competitiveness
📨 Open letter: 100+ Cleantech Leaders Urge European Commission for Bold Action in Clean Industrial Deal 📨 Today, over 100 leading cleantech innovators and investors from across Europe come together to call on the European Commission to deliver an ambitious Clean Industrial Deal that will drive the EU’s competitive decarbonisation and secure its leadership in clean technologies. In an open letter to President Ursula von der Leyen and Commissioners Stéphane Séjourné; Teresa Ribera and Wopke Hoekstra, Europe’s #cleantech industry outlines the urgent need for bold action in 2025 to address the perfect storm of challenges facing Europe: geopolitical instability, higher #energy costs, and mounting global #competition. The forthcoming Clean Industrial Deal must focus on sending two decisive market signals: 📈 A demand surge for cleantech: helping industries become more competitive by adopting state-of-the-art cleantech, establishing lead markets, integrating innovation into public procurement, maintaining the ambition of the ETS and CBAM, and fostering fair trade policies. 💶 Targeted public de-risking mechanisms: Expanding EU funding and guarantees to act as signal towards Europe’s €38 trillion in private capital to unlock cleantech’s full potential. Public guarantees and counter guarantees (such as those under the Wind Package) are helping to unlock private financing and working capital for cleantech manufacturing while being fiscally efficient. The EU and European Investment Bank (EIB) should prioritise creating blended finance vehicles pooling institutional investor capital on a large scale to unlock credit instruments which are critical to scaling industries. Europe already can point to pioneering stories like Energy Dome (long duration energy storage, Italy), Stegra (green steel, Sweden), Sunfire (electrolysers, Germany), and Verkor (battery gigafactories, France)—but we need many more. With the right policies in place, the Clean Industrial Deal can create a strong business case for cleantech scale-ups, transitioning industries, and a prosperous, sustainable future for all European citizens. This is why this letter is led by cleantech initiatives across Europe: Cleantech for Iberia Tech for Net Zero Cleantech for France Cleantech for Italy Cleantech for Nordics Cleantech for Baltics This is a make-or-break moment for Europe’s industry. The EU must leverage its cleantech edge to reach industrial leadership in the next decade. 📄 Read the full open letter and join us in shaping Europe’s clean industrial future: https://lnkd.in/e_8zcV3P AFYREN Atlas Agro Baseload Capital Battolyser Systems Build to Zero Circular Carbon CAPHENIA Climeworks CorPower Ocean cylib Daze DeepDrive Ecocem Global ecoLocked Electrochaea Electra FertigHy Genvia GravitHy GreenCap Solutions AS Greenlyte Carbon Technologies Heart Aerospace Hydrogenious LOHC HyperHeat