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Eve Tamme is the new chair of the Zero Emissions Platform. Read the press release

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.

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.

On 30 November 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation establishing a certification framework for carbon removals.

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.

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.

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.

In response to the energy price rises, the European Commission (EC) presented, on 14 September 2022, a proposal for a Council Regulation on an emergency intervention in energy markets.