Europe

Context With the reform of the global financial regulation or ‘banking package’ under Basel 3, the European Union seeks to better integrate climate issues and ESG-related concerns into its prudential framework. As transition finance emerges as the need of the hour, EU policymakers, financial regulators and supervisors are looking to develop the enabling tools for […]

Context  Climate Farm Demo is a unique pan-European network of Pilot Demo Farmers (PDFs) covering 28 countries and all pedo-climatic areas. Its overall aim is to accelerate the adoption of Climate Smart Farming (CSF) practices, thereby meeting the targets of the EU Climate strategy.     To reach this objective, the project adopts a MultiActor approach by connecting […]

Context In 2023, the EU has an ambitious regulatory framework to perform its green transformation, but it is still lacking a financing framework, as the promised “European Green Deal Investment Plan” of 1 trillion euros never materialized. This is a particular concern for clean technologies as they are riskier than other investments, given them a […]

Science-Based Integrated Forest Mitigation Management Made Operational for Europe Context Forests have a major role to play in mitigating climate change, through their ability to capture and store carbon throughout their lifetime. But this mitigation potential is highly dependent on forest management practices and could be doubled if best management practices become the norm. Still, […]

Context The EU climate policy has been developing steadily over the past years. The European climate law makes reaching net zero by 2050 a legal obligation. With the Fit-for-55 package, the policy toolbox has been expanded and strengthened significantly to drive the necessary economic transition towards this goal.   But the current institutional EU framework […]

Context Carbon pricing is increasingly applied as a key instrument for the climate transition and the related revenues are expected to keep increasing in the coming years. National and local governments can adopt various approaches to using these revenues, which could be critical for the public acceptability of these measures, or indeed to finance the […]

Context : With the presentation of its “European Green Deal”, the European Commission confirms the priority of rapidly directing investments towards a zero-carbon economy, resilient to climate change. In order to support the implementation of its Sustainable Finance Action Plan of March 2018, the European Commission has just supported the launch of a project bringing […]

Context : Taxes and public expenditure are powerful drivers for low-carbon transition and climate change adaptation. Direct action, when the Government invests, for example, in low-carbon transport infrastructure or reforestation projects; indirect action, when national taxes and spending change the choices of private economic actors. As awareness of this responsibility grows, finance ministers are committing […]

Context : To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, EU policy will have to be reoriented – from incremental towards structural change. As expressed in the European Green Deal, the challenge is to initiate the necessary transformation to climate neutrality in the coming years, while enhancing competitiveness, productivity, employment. To mobilise the creative, financial and political […]

Provide factual, independent and quantified analysis of climate and energy policies in articulation with the EU ETS in order to examine the conditions for improving their environmental and economic efficiency A new framework for climate and energy policies is being built for the period 2021-2030, and comes with major stakes:   The alignment of climate […]