On Wednesday, our research director Antoine Oger joined other experts and industry leaders to talk about how smart industrial and trade policies can power Europe's green battery value. 💡 Read our 5 takeaways from the event: 1. Unified Green Market: We need a single market industry that isn't just green but also monitored permanently to build demand-side confidence. 2. Critical Raw Material Act and 40% Goal: These are targets, not mandates. Public and private Investments must be made now, as the CRMA provides only the framework, leaving implementation to Member States and companies. 3. EU Commission's Role: The new European Commission must demonstrate commitment to supporting these implementation measures and investment. A follow-up to the European Green Deal investment is crucial after NextGen EU ends in 2026. 4. Global South Inclusion: The EU's raw material policy needs to accommodate global south countries, finding common ground and creating tools that provide them with policy and financial space to pursue their own sustainable development objectives. 5. Tailored Free Trade Agreements: Mega FTAs are increasingly challenging. Smaller, targeted agreements that combine legal obligations and sound sustainability provisions are needed “The new EU institutional framework provides a window of opportunity to come up with a consistent and coherent foreign policy that is aligned with the realities of the world as well as our climate and environmental objectives. This strategy must notably maintain a dual focus on decarbonisation and reducing domestic material footprint through its trade and industrial policy,” says Antoine Oger Read our work on Critical Raw Materials and circularity strategies ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dgd8RdG9 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eHpS7mBr Thanks to all the speakers for the great discussion Kerstin Jorna, European Commission Simone Tagliapietra, Bruegel - Improving economic policy Wouter Ghyoot, Umicore Djibril RENE william todts & Julia Poliscanova (she/her), Transport & Environment (T&E) Sunayana Sasmal, Tulip Consulting #Trade #RawCriticalMaterials #ElectricVehicles
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“We need a new Clean Industrial Deal for competitive industries…” 🗳️ Ursula von der Leyen was reelected as the President of the European Commission! Ahead of the voting today, she unveiled her Political Guidelines for the European Commission 2024 – 2029. So, what’s on the upcoming EU agenda? 🌱 Commitment to stay on course with the goals of the Green Deal and implementing the existing legal framework for 2030 while supporting energy-intensive industries and cleantech with a new Clean Industrial Deal. ⚙️ An Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act to support industries and companies through the transition. 🔋 Scale-up and prioritise investment in clean energy infrastructure and technologies, incl. for CO2 transport and hydrogen 🤝 New Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships to secure raw materials, clean energy, and clean tech globally. 🕊️ Set-up a global climate and energy vision and step up green diplomacy to engage more with non-EU countries on external aspects of EU policies. ♻️ A new Circular Economy Act to create market demand for secondary materials and establish a single market for waste, especially for critical raw materials. ✂️ Make business easier and faster by reducing admin burdens, simplifying implementation, eliminating legislative overlaps, introducing a new category for small midcaps, and a new SME and competitiveness check. The EU election results have shown concerns over regulatory bottlenecks and rising costs. Now the focus is shifting to industrial competitiveness. Read the full guidelines. See link in comments 👇 #CleanIndustrialDeal #GreenDeal #Sustainability #NetZero #Industries
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The #Antwerpdeclaration : a pivot-point day for Europe as commercial entities look towards accelerating the current EU Green Deal. Balancing commercial needs and realities, especially for #energytransition, between industrialists and the EU regulators will be challenging, but with dedicated focus clean technologies and new decarbonization projects can come to actual fruition- Quoting Handelsblatt below: More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling behind competition in the USA and China, reports business newspaper Handelsblatt. The companies together authored the Antwerp Declaration – a plan to complement the Commission’s existing Green Deal – with the aim of maintaining high-quality jobs for European workers. Behind the declaration are mainly companies from energy intensive industries like chemicals, steel and building materials. Within the document, the companies are asking for a range of interventions, from the use of incentives by EU states in the internal market to promote the use of green technologies, through to the relaxation of restrictive regulations on the EU level. https://lnkd.in/eCUAbPw9
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♨️The European Commission released yesterday the first strategy governing carbon capture, utilisation and storage: The Industrial Carbon Management Strategy. 🌐For Romania and the whole CEE region, with potentially significant carbon storage capacity and important industries that will need to capture their emissions, this long-awaited Strategy sets a strategic direction which should enable firmer and quicker action on making #CCUS a reality. Moreover, it enables a fair geographical spread of new technologies and infrastructure across a currently West-centric Europe. Still, there are issues where the Commission could take a bolder, more in depth approach. 🔍Find out through EPG’s quick analysis written by Luciana Miu, PhD, our Head of Clean Economy, which are the strong and weak points of the strategy: https://lnkd.in/dsYAxqTd
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Today in Brussels, ministers discuss ways to enhance Europe's industrial competitiveness and resilience. The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) and Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) are initial steps, but the EU should go further. Our recent report on energy and climate policy priorities for the next European Commission recommends several measures to boost domestic cleantech manufacturing and diversify global value chains for green materials. They include: ✅ strengthen economic incentives to achieve the domestic cleantech production targets of the NZIA and CRMA by offering below-market interest loans for investors in strategic value chains as well as affordable industrial electricity prices to reshore critical raw materials processing. ✅ undertaking an effort to renegotiate trade and investment relationships with both China and the US in sensitive value chains to ensure a more balanced trading relationship with both nations. ✅ developing clean industry partnerships that combine investment into clean technology and critical raw materials production in strategic partner countries with prioritised access to the resulting output, through, for example, preferential market access to clean industrial products from strategic partner countries. Would you like to find out more about greening Europe’s industrial base while strengthening competitiveness? Head to our publication “EU policies for climate neutrality in the decisive decade: 20 initiatives to advance solidarity, competitiveness and sovereignty” here: https://lnkd.in/eJmEQ8sB And if you are in Brussels on Tuesday, June 11, join Agora Industry's in-person event to discuss how to boost the transformation of Europe’s industry in the upcoming legislative cycle! If you can’t make it on site, you can also follow the event online. Find the link to the programme and registration in the comments below. #EUGreenDeal #competitiveness #greenindustry #cleantech #greenmaterials
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We need to keep industry in Europe because the industry will deliver the climate solutions Europe needs! This is the aim of the The Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal, supported by 20 industrial sectors within the chemical industry to complement The Green Deal. Please read further and take part of the full declaration: https://lnkd.in/dmjuUmvk The declaration main bullets: 1. Put the Industrial Deal at the core of the new European Strategic Agenda for 2024-2029 2. Include a strong public funding chapter with a Clean Tech Deployment Fund 3. Make Europe a globally competitive provider of energy 4. Focus on the infrastructure Europe needs 5. Increase the EU’s raw materials security 6. Boost demand for net zero, low carbon and circular products 7. Leverage, enforce, revive and improve the Single Market 8. Make the innovation framework smarter 9. A new spirit of law-making 10. Ensure the structure allows to achieve results As, you can see, a list of quite logical objectives. But clear and common targets are the basis for achieving results. https://lnkd.in/ddjBtzsn
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Don’t miss the first event of our new Policy Forum Series 2024 on sustainable trade and environment! Our first panel focuses on the intersection of trade and sustainability, with a specific emphasis on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs). In recent years, the EU has recognized the vital importance of CRMs for various industries, including renewable energy, electronics, and automotive manufacturing. However, the extraction and processing of these materials often poses significant environmental and social challenges. The EU has made strides in integrating sustainability into its trade policy framework. This panel will take stock of the synergies and limitations of the EU approach, reflecting on the coherence of the different aims advanced by the policies of fostering sustainable trade, achieving resilient EU supply chains. Panel Chair: João Teixeira de Freitas 🗓 Join us on Tuesday 14 May at 12:30. Register here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eYrVj4aF #trade #environment #sustainability #criticalrawmaterials #EU UGent
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The European Commission has recently released a summary of dialogues on the transition to clean energy with the industry and social partners, highlighting the industry's crucial role in this process. These dialogues aim to strengthen the implementation of the European Green Deal to promote a clean and competitive economy. President Ursula von der Leyen initiated these dialogues in 2023 to discuss with European partners how to reinforce the European Green Deal. Moreover, it is vital to emphasize that the industry plays a fundamental role in the transition to clean energy. It faces significant challenges due to security, geopolitical, and economic contexts, as well as the need for fair competitive conditions. The dialogues underscored the industry's commitment to defining and implementing the European Green Deal, recognizing the importance of ensuring social equity during the transition and creating quality jobs. The Commission highlights that the European industry has increasingly adopted measures to integrate sustainable practices into its business models. This reflects not only a commitment to environmental preservation but also an acknowledgment of the importance of competitiveness and sustainability as interconnected elements in Europe's future economy. Therefore, collaboration between the Commission, the industry, and social partners is essential to address these challenges and move towards a cleaner and more sustainable economy. In practice, the European Union aims to reduce carbon emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Among the measures adopted is the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), an EU-imposed tax aimed at encouraging cleaner industrial production and reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). Read more about this topic in an article published on Asia Link Trade's LinkedIn page on February 9th, and follow us for further updates. 😉 Source: European Commission #internationalbusiness #importexport #logistics #asianbusiness #china #steel #combinednomenclature #CBAM #customs #business #strategicsourcing #sourcing #sourcingsolutions
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EU approves €750M Dutch scheme for industrial decarbonisation The European Commission has greenlit a €750 million Dutch scheme aimed at supporting the decarbonisation of industrial production processes. The plan is to replace fossil fuels where possible by incentivising electrified processes, as part of a broader European strategy to transition towards a net-zero economy. Under this plan, companies operating industrial installations in the country will receive direct grants for projects that replace fossil fuels with electrified processes. Read all about the qualifications: #greentech #decarbonisation #grants
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🛑 How to make the European Industrial Deal succeed – going beyond national approaches towards a European solution for clean industry ✍ 📅 The event took place in #brussels on 11 Jun 2024. 👉 Event takeaways: 🔹 Investment and Financing Challenges: Significant investment in low-carbon technologies is needed, but ideas and a strong business case are lacking. Current fiscal policies restrict most member states, limiting their ability to finance the green transition ☑ 🤝 🔹 Policy and Regulatory Adjustments: Speeding up permitting processes and addressing infrastructure financing are crucial. Supportive measures like low VAT for green products and green public procurement are needed. A dedicated Vice President for the Industrial Deal would be beneficial ☑ 🤝 🔹 Global Competitiveness and Industrial Strategy: High manufacturing costs in the EU pose challenges. Clean tech innovation needs support, and the Green Deal must be complemented by a strong industrial strategy ☑ 🤝 #eusew #european #sustainable #energy #limeindustry #limesector #hardtoabate #carbonneutral #netzero #carbonfootprint #carbonreducing #energyintensive #europeanlimeassociation
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Governments worldwide have turned to industrial policy to meet net zero commitments through subsidies, tax incentives, infrastructure evolution, research and development support and regulations — so-called green industrial policy. Green industrial policy demonstrates that the free market is not working well enough to fast-track the green economy transition. The case for green industrial policy is strong because, as long as the spillovers from green technologies are diffused globally through trade and investment, it increases the competitiveness of green industries. The issue with green industrial policies concerns its implementation and implications for developing countries. https://lnkd.in/di7ESaXs
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