Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence – how to make it work?

The Due Diligence Directive Directive is part of the unfolding EU corporate sustainability landscape which aims at integrating sustainability to strategies and everyday activity of large undertakings. Among them the CSDDD is a special case. It focuses on environmental and human rights impacts of businesses, but it also introduces an obligation for large companies to […]

The inclusion of hydrogen in the EU CBAM

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 we took stock of the implications […]

Expert Consultation: 2023 State of the EU ETS Report – by invitation only

The ERCST hosted brainstorming meeting with a small group of invited stakeholders and policy makers, which brainstormed on the presentation of the 2023 State of the EU ETS Report. It was the eight annual report on the State of the EU ETS and built on the reports produced by this group of authors, and other […]

The inclusion of hydrogen in the EU CBAM, ERCST’s assessment

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 presented the assessment’s conclusions concerning […]

CCUS in the net-zero transition

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 […]

EU Climate Policy and Electricity Market

During this meeting, ERCST intended to present the results of a research exercise on developing a climate change lens to analyse and inform the EU debate on reforming the electricity […]