CAN Europe’s position on Carbon Capture and Storage and/or Use (CSCU)

If countries want to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, temperature increase must be limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels: a central objective of the Paris Agreement, adopted […]

Read more 20/06/2020

Position paper Climate action

CAN Europe position on industrial transformation

Industry currently represents 14% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions. If targets and incentives are set correctly industry will be essential to provide technological solutions at scale to curtail […]

Read more 18/05/2020

Position paper Climate action

CAN Europe position on the use of gas in the future energy system

We need a rapid and far-reaching transition of our energy system if we want to remain compatible with the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit temperature rise to 1,5°C.

Read more 29/01/2020

Position paper Energy transition

Position paper on Just Transition for those depending on fossil resource extraction and combustion

A just transition means delivering the socio-economic transformation required to address climate change, whilst reducing inequalities in the most affected regions and ensuring the costs and benefits of the transition are spread […]

Read more 20/12/2019

Position paper Energy transition Financing the transition

CAN Europe position paper on the Energy Charter Treaty

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an investment treaty from the 1990s. It contains an arbitration mechanism known as Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement (ISDS) that allows a private investor to sue a state […]

Read more 09/12/2019

Position paper Climate action

CAN Europe position on long term targets

CAN Europe members agreed by consensus to regard the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C as the only acceptable goal for all policy making and planning aimed […]

Read more 04/10/2018

Position paper Climate action

CAN Europe position on adaptation to climate change in Europe

The EU’s current Adaptation Strategy was launched in 2013 with the intention to scale up the European Union’s resilience to the growing impacts of climate change that it is facing.

Read more 10/07/2018

Position paper Climate action

CAN Europe position on EU Framework for Research and Innovation

Working with a coalition of seventeen organisations CAN Europe has set out a number of recommendations on the role of the next EU Framework for Research and Innovation.

Read more 09/06/2017

Position paper Financing the transition

CAN Europe Position on finalisation of the EFSD Regulation

Along with a coalition of CSOs CAN Europe has set out recommendations to ensure that lessons are learnt from other investment initiatives at the multilateral and European level; both the […]

Read more 29/05/2017

Position paper Global transition

CAN Europe Position on the EU budget post-2020

The forthcoming EU budget post-2020 must serve higher climate ambition both in Europe and worldwide, catalyzing the zero-carbon transition of our societies, including the phasing out of fossil fuels towards 100% renewables […]

Read more 03/05/2017

Position paper Financing the transition Global transition