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 […]
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Expert Consultation: CBAM and Flanking Measures for Industrial Decarbonisation
In December 2022, the European institutions reached a provisional agreement in the CBAM trilogues. The transitional phase of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism started in October 2023, with actual implementation starting […]
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 […]
External Event: IETA European Climate Summit – CBAM: A New Era for Global Trade Order
ERCST's Executive Director, Andrei Marcu, moderated the Deep Dive session Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: A New Era for Global Trade Order, which is part of IETA's European Climate Summit in Lisbon. […]
Hydrogen: State of play of the EU hydrogen policy & regulatory framework
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 CCUS policy: Net-Zero Industry Act & upcoming Commission’s Communication
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 […]
2023 State of the EU ETS Report – Launch Event
This was the launch event of the 2023 State of the EU ETS Report1. During this event the report was presented by the authors and discussed by commentators. This was […]
Review of decarbonization policies for heavy-duty transport: the ERCST analytical framework
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 […]
Border Carbon Adjustment in the EU – CBAM in a portfolio of instruments for industrial decarbonization
The EU ETS and CBAM are key drivers to achieve industrial decarbonization and secure a prosperous and industrial EU, but they must be accompanied by flanking measures to be effective […]
EU Climate Policy & Electricity Market Design
The ERCST workstream on “EU Climate Policy and Electricity Market” provides analytical input on the interactions between EU climate policy and electricity market. Within the scope of the first part of this […]
I4C 2023: CCUS in the net-zero transition
This event was selected as a workshop within Innovative4Climate (I4C) 2023, the World Bank Group's annual global conference on climate finance, carbon markets and investment. The full programme is available here. To achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement, countries must drastically reduce their emissions and achieve a net-zero economy by 2050. Although carbon removals […]
The EU Hydrogen Market: Fit for investments?
This was an in-person meeting. During the previous ERCST hydrogen roundtable discussion, the different pieces of the EU H2 policy and regulatory framework were assessed, focusing on its readiness and […]
