Climate Friendly Materials Platform

Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin)

• How important are strategic long-term policies to foster the transition of the European materials sector? What are the key insights from the EU long-term strategy (November 2018)?
• How should the material sector transformation be reflected in Member States National Plans? How can Member States define priorities in their decarbonization strategies?
• What are the consequences of current leader-follower dynamics for industrial decarbonization in the EU? Do we need more industrial innovation in South-Eastern Europe and how can this happen? What is the role of foreign-owned companies?

 
Opening comments:

Aleksander Sniegocki (PDF, 0.74 MB) (WiseEuropa)

Balazs Felsmann (PDF, 0.94 MB) (REKK)

Carbon pricing with carbon leakage protection

• How to ensure protection from carbon leakage (regional vs EU average risk)?
• What is the role for border tax adjustment vs inclusion of consumption?

Opening comments:

Karsten Neuhoff (PDF, 0.79 MB) (DIW Berlin)

The role of low-emission standards

• To what extent should European legislation push for the introduction of low emission technologies of global scale (e.g. by means of required EU-ISO certification)?
• How to address concerns about industrial competitiveness for standards?
• Which steps are necessary to change recycling systems form a “shred-it-all-mix-and-separate-it” approach towards a product design allowing for the clean separation of basic materials?

Opening comments:

Timo Gerres (PDF, 0.97 MB) (IIT Comillas University)

Carbon Contracts for Differences for Stabilization of revenues to cover incremental costs and competitive low-carbon electricity

• How to address regulatory uncertainty and risk during a transition process?
• How to ensure sufficient revenue streams to incentivize investments in low-carbon technologies?
• How to ensure cost-competitive supply of large volumes of low-carbon electricity required to decarbonise European industry?

Opening comments:

Nils May (PDF, 436.47 KB)(DIW Berlin)

What emerges as a common vision on policy instruments? What can be concluded for inclusiveness and inter-company sharing of innovative and decarbonization efforts and responsibilities?

• How can European regulatory framework support early action on national level and vice versa?
  • State Aid review
  • ETS review
  • Renewables Directive & National action plans
  • EU 2030 governance & reporting