With the publication of the Fit-for-55 package and the Carbon Cycles Communication, the European Union is taking head-on the biggest challenge of our times: setting Europe on track to mitigate climate change. In all recent EU policy tools, Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) is clearly identified as a key pathway to reduce CO2 emissions […]

Would you say that achieving the EU’s net-zero goals will be virtually impossible without CCUS? The EU’s net-zero goal for 2050 is based essentially on the elimination of almost all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and in particular on CO2 emissions. To begin with, we need zero-carbon energy supply, clean mobility, and near-zero carbon industrial production, […]

European chemical industry reduced carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 already more than 50%. Using the “best available technologies” further improvement will require significant technology change associated with significant capital expenditures or electrification or capacity reduction. Being aware on further development of the European legislation, in particularly package Fit for 55 related to EU decarbonisation inspiring […]

Prime Minister Janez Janša presented some achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU in Brussels. He first of all thanked the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, for their extremely fruitful cooperation. He welcomed the cooperation between all European […]

The original full study[i] analyses the European Parliament’s (EP) carbon footprint in the context of the recent EP resolutions, in which it declared a climate emergency in Europe and requested the development of a strategy to become itself carbon-neutral by 2030. The analysis takes into account the various sources contributing to the EP’s greenhouse gas […]

Foreword by Johan Van Overtveldt, MEP (ECR/N-VA)- Chair of BUG Committee at the beginning of our interview: Climate change is a collective challenge. My party advocates and supports a sustainable transition that fosters competitiveness and welfare. We strongly believe that we need to achieve the necessary transitions in a growth scenario. We do not support […]

The package adopted on 14 July is ambitious, wide-ranging and impacts transport and its future from multiple angles. Against this backdrop we have included three proposals dedicated to work as the industrial backbone of the Fit for 55. More recharging infrastructure, technology neutral carbon intensity reductions and boosting alternative fuels markets through demand side measures are the core pillars of […]