Open letter to Climate Attachés that underlines that the use of units generated through the CRCF and the potential for double counting or claiming those units are two key separate, but interlinked, issues that are not receiving the attention they deserve during the ongoing trilogue process, and have been largely left out of the Council General approach. The European Parliament has included elements of both in its position, but those elements are still insufficient to ensure environmental integrity and robust accounting, and limit greenwashing.
Policy Briefing
Letter to the EU Heads of States and Governments: The Clean Industrial Deal & Competitiveness
We are writing ahead of the European Council 17-18 October meeting, in which the EU’s competitiveness agenda will be discussed.
In light of the forthcoming ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ (CID), the best way to preserve the EU’s long-term competitiveness is an EU green industrial strategy centred around the European Green Deal and its targets, which stimulates the production of net-zero technologies, ends our fossil fuel dependence and reduces our energy and material demand.