ERCST – European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

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European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

October 28, 2024

Reflection Note: Incentivising hydrogen demand: Critical challenges and opportunities for EU policy

October 24, 2024

ERCST Feedback to the EU Commission Public consultation ‘Methodology to determine the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission savings of low-carbon fuels’

October 23, 2024

Including products further down the value chain in the EU CBAM

UPCOMING EVENTS

ERCST at COP29 – All Events
November 11 @ 10:00 - November 22 @ 16:00
Launch event – Low-Carbon Hydrogen: key elements for a common sense approach (Public Event)
December 4 @ 14:00 - 16:00
Launch Event – Evaluation of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
December 9 @ 14:00 - 16:00
Stakeholder consultation – CO₂ Storage Beyond the EU: Regulatory Barriers and Business Opportunities
December 11 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Future of Emissions Trading System in the EU: Role of Emissions Trading in EU Climate Policy – Launch Event
December 12 @ 11:00 - 13:00
International townhall: CBAM implementation – One year later
December 12 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Stakeholder Roundtable: 2025 State of the EU ETS Report
December 17 @ 10:30 - 12:30

RECENT EVENTS

Stakeholders Consultation – ‘Implementation of Transition Plans for climate change mitigation’
November 5 @ 15:30 - 17:30
Stakeholder Roundtable: Future of Emission Trading in the EU – Role of Emissions Trading in EU climate policy
November 5 @ 10:30 - 12:30
First Stakeholders and Member States Consultation – Implementation and transposition of hydrogen regulations in the EU Member States
October 30 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Finding common ground: A debate on the role of Carbon Management technologies in decarbonisation pathways
October 24 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Launch Event: Including products further down the value chain in the EU CBAM
October 23 @ 15:00 - 17:00
ERCST Debate – Delegated Act on GHG emission savings of low-carbon fuels methodology
October 16 @ 14:00 - 16:00
Stakeholders Consultation – Low-Carbon Hydrogen: key elements for a common sense approach
October 15 @ 14:00 - 17:00
Future of the EU ETS: ETS Coverage – Launch Event
September 26 @ 11:00 - 13:00

RECORDINGS

On 23 March 2023, the Commission submitted to the European Parliament and the Council, a proposal for a directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (i.e., Green Claims Directive). Under this proposal, companies and traders will be required to prove voluntary claims about environmental characteristics of their products or their organisations to be verified by a third party (the “verifier” an accredited body officially established by the Member State). The European Parliament adopted its position, with further changes and several restrictions to climate-related claims, in plenary on 12 March 2024. On 17 June 2024, the Council adopted its position (‘general approach’) – which will form the basis for negotiations between the co-legislators in the new legislative cycle on the final shape of the Green Claims Directive.

This meeting aims to look and discuss the current developments of the proposed Green Claims Directive – particularly, what to expect for climate-related claims – and how this legal framework compares and fits within the international context, among developments in other non-EU jurisdictions.

ERCST is pleased to announce the launch of its “Future of Emission Trading System in the EU”. The report aims to examine the architecture, governance and role of emissions trading in meeting EU objectives in the European Climate Law during the second half of Phase IV (2025-2030) and beyond.

The launch of this first report took place on September 26.

This initiative is intended to produce seven reports, covering different aspects that will determine the future of the emission trading system in the EU.

This first report will examine possible scope extensions of the emission trading coverage both sectorial as well as geographic.

The initiative is being supported by: CEFIC – CEMBUREAU – CEPI – EDF- Électricité de France – ENEL – EuLA – Eurelectric – Eurofer – Eurometaux – European Aluminium – ExxonMobil – Fertilizers Europe – Fuels Europe – PGE – Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities – French Ministry of Ecological Transition – German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action – Ministry of Climate and Environment of the Republic of Poland

LATEST NEWS

November 14, 2024

ERCST at COP29 in Baku – Event on The Role of Climate Clubs in Addressing Trade Related Climate Measures

November 14, 2024

ERCST at COP29 in Baku – Event on Carbon removals in international carbon markets

October 21, 2024

Marino Varricchio attended the 4th ICM Forum in Pau

October 21, 2024

Ana Ruiz participated in Carbon Forward’s Expo London

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.