If most steel on the EU market is labelled “high-performing”, the label stops driving change.

Our latest policy brief sets out recommendations to ensure the EU’s steel performance classes under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

As currently designed, the classification risks legitimising the status quo instead of accelerating the transition to genuinely low-carbon steel. By calibrating thresholds to today’s market rather than breakthrough technologies, the system weakens incentives for first movers and risks undermining #leadmarket policies like green public procurement. 

Read the full brief