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Joint letter – The CID must deliver a bold strategy to reinforce Europe’s global leadership in cleantech & build a competitive net-zero economy

Publish date: February 5, 2025

16 European think tanks, civil society organisations, and industry associations, including Bellona Europa, have sent an open letter to the Commission delivering a bold strategy to build strategic cleantech industries in Europe. The Clean Industrial Deal must incentivise industrial companies to integrate cleantech into their processes and shift to a decarbonised, circular and innovative business model. This strategy should be backed up by commensurate investments and de-risking instruments, to transform the vision of the Competitiveness Compass into concrete action.

This letter calls for the EU to turn the Clean Industrial Deal into an effective Joint Decarbonisation and Competitiveness Roadmap that closes Europe’s innovation-to-market gap.

Read the letter and press release below.

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6th meeting of the Carbon Removal Expert Group summary and feedback 

The Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) has been formally approved by the Council on the 19th of November 2024 and entered into force on the 9th of December 2024, providing an official mandate for the Commission to develop methodologies on carbon farming and carbon removals. However, the technical documents and specifications are still being drafted and revised for input from the Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG), of which Bellona is a member. 

Photo: Christening of Northern Lights’ first CO₂ carrier in Stavanger in 2025, by Olav Øye

A great leap towards a scaled European market for CCS: Northern Lights expands storage capacity, will store CO₂ from Stockholm  

Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.

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