The Climate Friendly Materials Platform analyses the transformation of basic material production and use to achieve carbon neutrality. It brings together researchers from leading think tanks and universities to enhance Europe’s analytic understanding of how individual instruments can be implemented and combined into a coherent policy package. Activities are coordinated by the DIW team under the umbrella of the EU Research network Climate Strategies.
CBAM Reform towards standardized value
Recent analysis:
Industrial decarbonisation in a fragmented world: an effective carbon price LSE Policy insight 2025
Legal and administrative perspective on CBAM reform
Supporting the transition to climate-neutral production: an evaluation under the agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures. Journal of International Economic Law, 2023 (2021 Discussion paper)
Economic and Legal Considerations. Elgar Studies in Climate Law. 2021
Legal Design and Practical Administration. Discussion Papers, 2016
The Legal Basis under European Union Law. Reciel, 2016
Quantification of CBAM reform
Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022
Quantification: Carbon pricing of basic materials: Incentives and risks for the value chain and consumers, Ecological Economics, 2021
Earlier analysis of CBAM options
Addressing export concerns in the CBAM File, Policy Brief, Climate Friendly Materials Platform, 2022
Role in European industrial decarbonisation, Policy Brief, 2020
Border Carbon Adjustments and Alternative Measures for the EU ETS: An Evaluation. Discussion Papers, 2020
Initial analysis: An Option for Carbon Pricing Post-2020. Climate Strategies Report, May 2016
For German version of webside: Klimafreundliche Herstellung und Nutzung von Grundstoffen: Bündel von Politikmaßnahmen notwendig. DIW Wochenbericht 2018
Carbon contracts for difference
Product standards
To ban or not to ban carbon-intensive materials: A legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements, RECIEL, 2021
Green lead markets
Green premiums are a challenge and an opportunity for climate policy design, Nature Climate Change 2023 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01689-2
Green Public Procurement: Climate provisions in public tenders can help reduce German carbon emissions, Economic Bulletin, 2019
Using public procurement as a decarbonisation policy: a look at Germany, Economic Bulletin, 2017
Policy package and governance
For german version of website – please use German version of this report: Green Deal for industry: a clear policy framework is more important than funding. DIW Weekly Report 10 / 2021, S. 73-82
Transforming industrial clusters to implement the European Green Deal. Policy Brief, January 2021
Closing the Green Deal for Industry Policy Paper, July 2021 (earlier 2-page summary available here)
A Climate-Neutral Industry: Status of policy debate in European Member States. Policy Brief, November 2020
Investments in climate friendly materials to strengthen the recovery package, Climate Strategies Report, June 2020
Filling Gaps in the Policy Package to Decarbonise Production and Use of Materials. Climate Strategies Report, June 2018
Innovation and use policies required to realize investment and emission reductions in the materials sector. Climate Strategies Report. Initial findings. January 2017
Sector specific ex-post analysis of EU Climate policy effects and gaps
The pulp and paper overview paper. Climate Strategies Report, May 2016
Steel Report: Carbon Control Post 2020 in Energy Intensive Industries. Climate Strategies Report, October 2014
The Cement Report: Carbon Control and Competitiveness Post 2020 Climate Strategies Report, February 2014
