The EU’s new clean industrial strategy must strike a balance between protecting key industries, not unduly shielding others, and creating a strong business case for clean products, key EU officials said on Wednesday (18 September).
Increasing demand for green steel through minimum quotas for carmakers is not the right way to decarbonise steel production, carmakers said, while environmentalists consider the car industry to be “uniquely placed” to work as a lead market for green st…
While the EU Green Deal came with the promise of new jobs in green industries offsetting job losses elsewhere, these jobs are currently being created outside Europe, warned Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of trade union IndustriAll Europe.
EU steelmakers are pinning their hopes on Ursula von der Leyen’s plans to force public authorities and steel-using sectors to buy ‘clean’ as a key way to decarbonise European industries – an idea already endorsed by German politicians and seen by many …
SINGAPORE, July 11 (Reuters) – China approved no new coal-based steel projects in the first half of 2024, researchers said on Thursday, accelerating its shift towards green production as it prepares for the impact of a new carbon levy on exports to Eur…
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has defended the country’s billion-euro investments into green steel plants, saying it was needed to avoid a breakdown of whole regions’ industries and secure supply of steel at times of geopolitical uncer…
Faced with global competition from countries with cheap renewable energy, the EU should embrace a partial deindustrialisation rather than subsidise uncompetitive industries, according to a new report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Resear…
Romania is leading EU efforts on small-scale reactors that could make the bloc a clean tech leader. But so far, they remain unproven.
UK opposition party’s pledge to spend £28 billion a year on a cleaner economy ditched after months of dithering.
Moving clean energy around is an oft-touted solution but steelmakers might also wish to rethink their inputs
The realization that little real progress is likely to be made in an election year where former President Donald Trump will put a glaring spotlight on trade has convinced some officials it’s time to move on.
The EU Commission on Tuesday (19 December) announced that it would keep tariffs on US steel and aluminium suspended until March 2015 with the goal of reaching a deal on green steel and aluminium until then.
While Europe has neither the cash bazooka of the United States Inflation Reduction Act, nor the state capitalism of China, the automotive industry can be the lead market to boost Europe’s green steel plans, writes Julia Poliscanova of Transport & E…
EU and US are thrashing out a deal to create a green steel and aluminum club to keep out metals from countries like China — but are still closing gaps on exactly how to do so.
As the EU and the US hurry to agree on green steel before the end of October to prevent tariffs from snapping back into place, their diverging positions lay bare different philosophies on how global trade should be reorganised to account for climate pr…
