• EU ETS Directive after trilogues: Discussion with Beatriz Yordi and roundtable

    University Foundation Rue d’Egmont, 11, Brussels, Belgium

    The ETS has emerged as the backbone of EU Climate Action and, especially in the last two years, as a crucial driver of decarbonisation. The Commission proposal to review the EU ETS Directive aimed at aligning the emissions pathway of the ETS sectors with the new EU climate targets. Throughout the next decade, the ETS […]

  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence – how to make it work?

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

    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 […]

  • The inclusion of hydrogen in the EU CBAM

    ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

    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, […]

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

    ERCST Rue Archimède 61, Bruxelles, Belgium

    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, […]

  • 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 market design and on the discussions held during private ERCST working group consultations in January and February. This meeting started with a presentation by ERCST’s […]