Green bonds – State of play. What is in it for transition?

The Green Bond Standard is the flagship financial instrument incorporating the EU Taxonomy. After the Council and the European Parliament adopted their positions, its status is entering a new phase, the inter-institutional negotiations. It is a good moment to take stock of the different policy aspects related to green bonds: relation with the Taxonomy, the […]

Expert Consultation: CBAM: Different Approaches and Evolving Circumstances

One of the most critically important issues concerning CBAM, yet to be resolved, is the question of how to compare the level of effort in third countries’ climate policies to that of the EU, in order to determine crediting against the CBAM. The US, for example, has embarked on a suite of transformational climate-related initiatives […]

External Event: Andrei Marcu speaks at Carbon Forward Conference 2022

Our Executive Director Andrei Marcu attended the Carbon Forward Conference as a speaker. The Carbon Forward Conference is a conference on environmental markets where policy makers, analysts, industrials and many more get together. The conference took place in London. More information about the conference can be found on the website of the Carbon Forward Conference […]

The matrix: sustainable reporting requirements

This workstream aims to bring together stakeholders and policymakers regularly to discuss substantive issues around hydrogen, informed by original intellectual input from ERCST. For more than 20 years, the market has developed multiple reporting tools in response to the demand from investors for identifying which investments and economic activities can be seen as “sustainable”. In […]

ERCST x WEF: Scenarios and Strategies for Carbon Competitiveness

This meeting is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please contact bdegraeve@ercst.org. This Roundtable on Scenarios and Strategies for Carbon Competitiveness is to be held on Wednesday 26 October, 13.30-15.00 CEST, at the ERCST Offices (Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Brussels). The roundtable is co-convened by the European Roundtable on Climate Change and […]

The principle of technological neutrality and hydrogen incentives

This event was selected as a side event within the European Hydrogen week 2022. While the focus of the European Commission Hydrogen Strategy clearly lies on renewable hydrogen, the strategy acknowledges that in the short and medium term, other forms of low-carbon hydrogen are needed to rapidly reduce emissions from existing hydrogen production and support […]

COP27 Side Event: WEF x ERCST Panel – Carbon Pricing and Trade: What Future?

This panel was co-convened by the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) and the World Economic Forum. The use of carbon pricing instruments is growing worldwide. So too, is interest in border carbon adjustments (BCAs), to ease industry competitiveness concerns. This reflects a growing need to improve dialogue between trade and climate […]