ERCST – European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

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European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

April 1, 2025

Policy Tracker: Clean Industrial Deal – Flagship actions

March 27, 2025

Future of Emissions Trading in the EU: Price signal and competitiveness

March 25, 2025

Solutions for exports of EU CBAM-covered goods

UPCOMING EVENTS

Expert consultation: Extension of the CBAM scope
April 8 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Stakeholder Consultation – Advancing BECCS Policy: Harmonizing Land Use with Carbon Dioxide Removal Goals
April 10 @ 15:00 - 16:30
2025 State of the EU ETS Report – Launch Event (Public Event)
May 21 @ 15:00 - 17:00

RECENT EVENTS

Launch Event – Future of Emissions Trading in the EU: Price Signal and Competitiveness (Public Event)
March 27 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Launch Event: Solutions for exports of EU CBAM-covered goods
March 25 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Focus Group – Circular Carbon Economy: CO₂ as a Valuable Resource
March 12 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Launch Event – Implementation and transposition of hydrogen regulations in the EU Member States
March 11 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Stakeholders Consultation: Green Claims Directive (GCD) trilogues – How does the GCD connect to Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs)?
March 6 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Stakeholder Consultation – 2025 State of the EU ETS Report
March 5 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Public Debate – A Debate on Flexibility in the EU’s Transportation Decarbonization Policies
March 4 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Expert consultation: Solutions for exports of EU CBAM-covered goods
February 17 @ 15:00 - 16:30

RECORDINGS

This is the launch event of the ERCST report on the ‘Price signal & competitiveness’, under the framework of the ‘Future of the Emissions Trading in the EU’ project.

The “Future of Emissions Trading System in the EU” is a process that ERCST is putting in place to provide original analytical insights, pinpoint challenges, and propose solutions for the evolution of the Emissions Trading System in the EU with the participation in this important debate of EU institutions and EU stakeholders. In the framework of this sub-workstream, ERCST has been organising thematic events along the year focused on key issues for the Emission Trading in the EU. This is the third of seven reports ERCST will produce in the framework of the Future of the Emission Trading in the EU project.

The CBAM’s transitional period is underway, however several issues remain unresolved ahead of the definitive period and numerous delegated and implementing legislations, along with reviews are due before the end of the transitional period. Altogether, 2025 will be an important year for the CBAM, with decisions on principal design parameters through several reviews and implementing and delegated acts scheduled throughout the year.

ERCST’s ‘Border Carbon Adjustments in the EU – Phase VI’ workstream will start off 2025 by revisiting the topic of exports.

At this event the ERCST launch and present a paper that identifies solutions for addressing the carbon leakage risk associated with EU-produced goods subject to the CBAM that are destined for export to third countries. Building on ERCST’s work in Phase III on a WTO-aligned export solution, and in Phase V on the broader implications of the CBAM for export-oriented sectors, the paper proposes an updated policy mechanism to mitigate the competitiveness impacts on exporters.

The goal of this initiative is to assess how EU Member States are implementing and transposing EU regulations and directives into their national framework. A few Member States have been selected as case study. The Paper aims to identify:

How the Member States implementing and transposing EU hydrogen regulations (eg. RED III, Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market package, RED II, FuelEU maritime, RefuelEU aviation, REPowerEU, Net Zero Industry Act) and which are the best practices that emerged.
Which tools (e.g., subsidies, State Aid, tax incentives but also policies) are being used in EU Member states to promote the adoption of hydrogen technologies and how are these instruments tailored to meet the unique needs and conditions the various countries.
Whether the Member States have/plan to develop programs or bilateral mechanisms to interact with the other Member States

LATEST NEWS

April 3, 2025

ERCST Comment – The EU NDC: A critical moment for Climate Policy and the Economic Future of the EU

April 3, 2025

Experts advised on how to maintain the effectiveness of the EU ETS | EcoPolitic

March 28, 2025

Researchers Pitch ‘export adjustments’ for EU industries covered by CBAM – Carbon Pulse

March 24, 2025

ERCST in action: Andrei Marcu at the Financial Times event “Tackling Europe’s Red Tape Challenge – Simplifying EU regulation to boost competitiveness and growth” – Gallery

The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) is an independent think-tank, registered under belgium law, working on European and Global climate change policies.

ERCST is committed to the goals and principles of the Paris Agreement and works towards promoting a just, inclusive and sustainable global transition.

ERCST has always been careful to ensure an inclusive working environment and to be attentive to gender diversity and to the plurality of voices represented in its initiatives. When this is not reflected in one of our publications or events, it is due to the unavailability of the consulted experts to participate, to choices of organizations on their representation or specific representation in the respective organization.