The paths to decarbonised and sustainable transport: Stakeholders’ meeting

ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

The objective of the project is to analyse the current pathways emerging from EU policy for decarbonisation of heavy-duty road transportation including links to the other transportation modes 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 […]

CCUS in the net-zero transition

ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

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

ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

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 […]

2023 State of the EU ETS Report – Launch Event

Residence Palace. Rue de la Loi 155, 1000 Bruxelles. Residence Palace. Rue de la Loi 155, Bruxelles, Belgium

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 […]

Border Carbon Adjustment in the EU – CBAM in a portfolio of instruments for industrial decarbonization

ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

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 in a context where they must face other decarbonisation approaches such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US and significant subsidies for green […]

EU Climate Policy & Electricity Market Design

ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

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 project (1st quarter of 2023), the ERCST team has developed a framework matrix (Annex 1) for analysing the elements of the EC proposal on electricity […]

I4C 2023: CCUS in the net-zero transition

Bilbao Exhibition Centre Azkue Kalea, 1 48902 Barakaldo Bizkaia, Spain Azkue Kalea, 1, Barakaldo, Bizkaia, Spain

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 […]