Sinan Reçber

Add chemicals to Industrial Accelerator Act, Italy demands

Power and fossil fuel lobbyists align on Europe’s electrification

Climate Commissioner fears delays in the expansion of EU climate tariffs

‘Massive second China shock’: Key EU lawmaker believes Beijing is ‘bombarding’ Europe with heavily subsidised products

‘We can no longer afford that’: Climate commissioner blasts firms using ETS savings to invest in China

At present, many eyes in Brussels are on a German MEP from the European People's Party: Peter Liese, lead lawmaker for the reform of the Emissions Trading System (ETS 1) in the European Parliament. For what is at stake with this reform is nothing less than the future

“Arbitrary”, “political marketing”, “no real answer”: Experts slam new 30% industry target floated by EU states

In Brussels today, the attachés of the EU member states are discussing a newly proposed industrial target under the Industrial Accelerator Act: this stipulates that the value of the Union’s manufacturing sector is to rise by 30 per cent by 2035. Industry experts from three different think tanks and

EU concrete’s climate dilemma: Deep decarbonisation vs fast fixes

The European Commission aims to set a quota of five per cent for low-carbon concrete in public procurement, thereby driving forward the transformation of this energy-intensive sector. However, a new study commissioned by the environmental organisation ECOS now estimates that the EU could produce much more low-carbon

“We sleepwalked for years”: EU lawmakers react with shock and fury to figures on China's industrial subsidies

Europe has long accused China of unfairly using subsidies to push European industrial competitors out of its own markets and abroad – whether in electric cars, wind turbines and chemicals, or cement, solar panels, or semiconductors. On Wednesday, OECD Deputy Secretary-General Yasushi Masaki presented EU parliamentarians in the International Trade

How Europe could fight back against China’s next rare-earth stranglehold

Europe is coming under increasing pressure between China and the US: whether it involves rare-earth elements or liquefied natural gas, digital technologies, or the question of whether European companies can continue exporting products like electric cars abroad. A new study commissioned by the EU Parliament's Committee on

Why Europe is in danger of cementing old industrial structures

The European Commission aims to incentivize heavy industry to invest in decarbonisation – and intends only to grant free CO2 certificates worth billions of euros if companies submit corresponding investment plans. The Commission envisages these and other conditions as part of the reform of the first European Emissions Trading System (ETS