Poland outlines climate- and energy-related priorities of upcoming EU presidency
Krzysztof Bolesta, Poland’s state secretary for climate and environment, has highlighted his three main priorities for the upcoming six-month Polish EU Presidency beginning on Jan. 1 next year.
Read MoreEU’s Ribera calls for doubling investment in electricity grids
The Spanish ecological transition minister, who is widely tipped for the European Commission’s climate portfolio, has highlighted the importance of ramping up investments in electricity grids to support the green transition.
Read MoreFuture of EU agriculture report dismisses carbon trading as ‘premature’
The European Commission vowed to “keep reflecting” on ways to make agriculture more sustainable and resilient to climate change, as experts delivered their final report on the future of EU agriculture in Brussels that struck a sceptical tone on carbon trading in the sector.
Read MoreUS business group gives advice to EU on CCUS, hydrogen deployment
Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen technologies have a critical role to play in achieving the EU’s decarbonisation targets, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors, said the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union in recommendations to the bloc’s policymakers on how to accelerate deployment.
Read MoreSpain’s Ribera seen as most likely pick for EU climate chief
The Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition, who was appointed to Brussels last week by her government, is widely tipped for the European Commission’s climate portfolio, but is not certain to be confirmed in time for the COP29 summit in Baku.
Read MoreEU adopts final list of products considered to permanently bind CO2
The CO2 contained in construction materials – such as cement, bricks, and tiles – will be considered as “permanently chemically bound” for centuries and qualify as non-emitted under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), according to new rules adopted over the summer.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Refiners see limited growth in e-fuels by 2030, bet on advanced biofuels
European refiners have low expectations for e-fuels production by 2030 and are instead planning to develop advanced biofuels to meet EU climate goals, the sector’s trade association told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Steel sector eyes ‘breakthrough technologies’ to meet EU climate goals
The European steel industry has exhausted almost all options to reduce emissions thanks to efficiency gains and is now looking at “breakthrough technologies” – essentially electrification – to achieve climate neutrality, the sector’s lobby group told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
Read MoreDebate heats up on ‘recycled carbon fuels’ reporting rules under EU ETS
An EU-wide public consultation on greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting rules under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has yielded many reactions on recycled carbon fuels (RCFs) as one of the potential avenues to decarbonise aviation and maritime transport.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Steelmakers flag unsolved issues with CBAM, warn of ‘very high risks’
From definitive default values for imported goods to anti-circumvention rules on trade, there are still plenty of unknowns associated with the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that make the bloc’s carbon tariff a very high risk policy, according to the European steelmakers association, Eurofer.
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