ETS review: Game over for Tiered Approach

Today’s vote in Environment Committee of the European Parliament marks another major stepping stone for the ETS review. “There are no more doubts. The message from the Parliament is unequivocal: Game over for the tiered approach. The time has come to promote and...

Review of Directive on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain roads

We welcome the European Commission’s intention to create a technically interoperable system in all Member States. However, the introduction of any distance-based road charging measure will inevitably be more costly. Road charging should not result in penalising of...

ETS Review: European paper industry commends rejection of tiered approach

Today’s vote in the European Parliament marks a major stepping stone for the ETS review. “This message reads loud and clear: NO to a tiered approach on carbon leakage and YES to a dynamic and predictable benchmark’s reduction” says Nicola Rega, Climate Change...

Tiered approach impacts seriously the majority of energy-intensive industries in the EU and their associated value chains

We, the signatories of this paper, energy-intensive sectors representing about 2 million jobs in the EU and comprising many SME’s, are under direct impact of the EU ETS and are deemed exposed to carbon, investment and employment leakage. We urge Members of the...

Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents promise to play key role in making paper industry more sustainable

PhD research carried out as part of the PROVIDES project has recently resulted in promising new sustainable hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs). These hydrophobic DESs could successfully replace chemical solvents in the paper recycling process in order to remove...

Response to public consultation on access to international road haulage

Short summary: We support a completely free market for transport services in the European Union that can improve industry’s competitiveness. Liability of shippers should be proportionate. Simple cabotage rules allowing the development of today’s complex and...