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EUROFER comments on the draft EU climate law
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The European steel industry is committed to contributing responsibly to the achievement of the EU’s long-term climate objectives in line with the ambition of the Paris Agreement. With the enabling conditions in place, notably a supportive regulatory framework and wide access to competitive climate-neutral energy sources, the European steel industry will be empowered to developing, upscaling and rolling-out new technologies some of which have been already identified by our companies. This could reduce our sector’s emissions by 2050 by at least 80 to 95% compared to 1990 levels, thus making a major contribution to the EU’s climate neutrality.
The Climate Law offers the opportunity for a thorough reflection on EU climate policy and more broadly on the EU’s role in the global arena. The pursued “leading by example” strategy in combination with the unilateral climate neutrality objective gives the EU even greater responsibility since other countries will follow the EU’s leadership only if this shows to be successful in combining climate change mitigation with economic and industrial development as well as social acceptance. Hence, the scalability and reproducibility of the EU transition in third countries is an essential element for the continues success of EU climate leadership.
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Brussels, 01 July 2022 – The upcoming negotiations on the EU Emissions Trading System and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism need to enable industry’s decarbonisation and make the green transition a true success story. EUROFER, which represents the EU steel industry providing 310,000 direct jobs and 2,5 million indirect jobs, calls upon the EU institutions to work for a balanced compromise in the final text. The Council, with the adoption of its position, made progress towards a smoother phase out of free allocations for industries in transition to carbon neutrality, but several issues still need to be fixed.
The Commission proposal for the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) risks
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Brussels, 22 June 2022 – Despite some acknowledgment of industry’s challenges in addressing the green transition, the outcome of today’s plenary vote of the European Parliament will require further work in the next steps of the legislative process to align the provisions to the deployment of the EU steel industry’s ambitious low carbon projects. EUROFER reiterates its call to EU policy makers for an open, fact-based discussion, also in light of the evolving geopolitical and energetic context, in order to speed up decarbonisation and secure the EU’s strategic autonomy.