ZEP joined stakeholders in a joint letter calling on the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) to support amendments tabled to recognised transport of CO2 to storage via ship, rail, barge and truck
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Response to consultation on competitive bidding under the Innovation Fund
ZEP responded to DG CLIMA’s consultation on the design of competitive bidding schemes for hydrogen under the Innovation Fund
Eve Tamme elected chair of the Zero Emissions Platform
Eve Tamme is the new chair of the Zero Emissions Platform. Read the press release
Call for candidates – ZEP chairperson
The process for the election of the new ZEP chairperson was approved by the AC and the call for applicants is now open. Applications are welcome until 2 January and the election will take place on 18 January 2023.
€160 million Connecting Europe Facility funding for 3 CCS projects
Member States have agreed to invest €602 million in 8 cross-border energy infrastructure projects under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) on 8 December 2022.
Interference in the EU ETS risks delaying efforts to decarbonise
ZEP urges the EU institutions to maintain a strong standing in climate ambitions, by avoiding short-term measures, such as political interventions in the EU ETS market, that would come at the expense of the needed long-term incentives to decarbonisation.
Proposal for a Union certification framework for carbon removals
On 30 November 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation establishing a certification framework for carbon removals.
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024
The European Commission published a draft version of the new Horizon Europe Work Programme, outlining upcoming funding opportunities under the EU’s flagship programme for Research and Innovation (R&I) activities.
€3 billion available under the Innovation Fund
The European Commission launched the third large-scale call of the Innovation Fund on 3 November 2022. As mentioned in the Communication ‘REPowerEU Plan’ published in May 2022 the size was doubled to €3 billion in grant funding compared to the previous large-scale call.
European Commission analysis paper on the London protocol
On 30 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) published an analysis paper called ‘The EU legal framework for cross-border CO2 transport and storage in the context of the requirements of the London Protocol’, where it provides an analysis of the EU ETS directive, the CO2 storage directive, and the London Protocol.