European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

May 24, 2023
Implementing Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies: A Call to Action [Draft Paper]
May 16, 2023
CBAM in a Portfolio of Measures for Industrial Decarbonization
May 11, 2023
Review of Decarbonization Policies for Heavy-Duty Transport: In search for a new analytical framework
April 26, 2023
2023 State of the EU ETS Report

UPCOMING EVENTS

RECENT EVENTS

RECORDINGS

The objective of the ERCST project is to analyze the current pathways emerging from EU policy for decarbonisation of heavy-duty road transportation and propose, if necessary and appropriate, complementary and/or alternative policy pathways. They will be underpinned by the EU objective of climate neutrality stemming from the EU Climate Law. The EU Sustainable and Smart Mobility strategy formulates the objective of 90% of emission reduction in the transport sector by 2050. It assumes developing many policies and technological solutions along the principle of technological neutrality and phasing out of fossil fuels. None of those policies alone is a silver bullet. Only the deployment of many complementary solutions and creating the space for innovation gives the chance to meet the ambitious decarbonisation targets in line with the European political and legal commitment for the climate neutrality by 2050 stemming from the European Green Deal and the EU Climate Law. The first report will set the ERCST analytical framework and address the following question: what influences the determination of pathways for mobility decarbonization? It will a) identify the desired outcomes that were used in defining the current pathways for mobility decarbonization, b) outline changes in the economic, political and social environment and c) determine new desired outcomes that need to be considered under current circumstances.
This workstream consists of a continuous series of meetings and accompanying publications which aim to bring together different stakeholders to take stock of key policy and regulatory developments of the EU hydrogen policy and regulatory framework identified by ERCST. It also aims to put forward recommendations and propose innovative solutions to existing policy and regulatory bottle necks.<br /><br />With most of dossiers reaching the final stages of the legislative process and new elements being added (i.a. EU electricity market reform, Net-Zero industrial act, EU H2 bank), this meeting intends to take stock of recent policy and regulatory developments for hydrogen in the EU.
To achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement of pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, countries must severely reduce their emissions and reach a net zero economy by 2050. In this framework, carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technology is necessary to achieve ambitious climate targets. However, its deployment is still way below the needed levels depicted in various global scenarios. As 2050 is approaching, it is now to bring this technology under the spotlight to incentivise investments, development, and cooperation at an international scale to put it on track for achieving climate neutrality at a global level. In this event, the role of CCUS in different climate neutrality scenarios and its role in different policy mixes is explored, bringing over regional perspectives on how this role has been translated and the technology implemented in different regulatory jurisdictions.
On December 13th the European Parliament and the Council reached a political agreement to introduce an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Although not part of the initial European Commission Proposal, CBAM will also apply to hydrogen together with cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, and electricity. During this meeting ERCST intends to present the assessment’s conclusions concerning the rationale and implications of the hydrogen inclusion in the EU CBAM. This assessment will build on the methodology used by ERCST for the analysis of other sectors (See: CBAM Sectorial Deep Dive) and on the discussions held during ERCST public meeting on February 1st. This meeting starts by a presentation by ERCST’s CBAM team outlining some of the assessment’s conclusions, followed by a panel discussion, Q&A and debate.

OTHER MATERIALS

June 1, 2023
The EU Hydrogen Market: Fit for investments? – Slides
May 25, 2023
EU Climate Policy and Electricity Market – Slides
May 25, 2023
I4C: Article 6 and CCUS in the net-zero transition – Slides
May 22, 2023
CBAM in a Portfolio of Measures for Industrial Decarbonization – Slides
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March 19, 2022
Study on carbon storage units and obligations under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement – OGCI

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