Events

Webinar of the third edition of its flagship report on climate investment across the European Union : The State of Europe's Climate Investment.

Launch of the State of the Climate Investment Report (second edition). Accelerating the climate transition is a central part of securing both the EU’s strategic autonomy and meeting the mid-to-long-term goals to decarbonise the economy, as the EU pledges to stay on course towards climate neutrality. This ambition requires both public and private climate investments but also policy tools. It also requires a clear understanding of the level of investment needed in different sectors to meet the EU decarbonisation targets and how those investments develop year-on-year.

    Date: 2025-06-17 Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Format: online + on site Context Together with its partners, hosted the session “Upscaling adaptation finance at national and European scales: costs, economic and fiscal rationale” at the next European Conference on Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA), which took place in June in Rimini, Italy.   […]

Climate-related risks to the financial system have risen sharply in recent years. Growing regional policy uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and economic instability increase the likelihood of a delayed transition – or, in the worst case, no transition. Financial supervisors have repeatedly warned that these scenarios pose the most significant risks to banks and the overall stability of the banking system.

The transition to climate neutrality has become a central objective for EU policy-making. Targets and policies to achieve it have been advanced and accelerated over the past 4 years. Despite the crises faced since 2020, the EU is making the shift from incremental changes and refinements to the transformative policies needed for a net-zero emissions future – seeking to become more resilient and competitive through a successful transition. The move to clean energy and new technologies is being spurred on in other parts of the world, with ac like the USA and China actively financing the transition. Partners around the world are watching EU policy developments closely – which increasingly have international implications (#CBAM). With the implementation of the Paris Agreement moving forward, new contributions are expected in financial and policy terms. The next legislative cycle needs to take crucial decisions on how to move EU policy forward in this context.

Update on EU progress to climate neutrality: towards a more competitive and secure Europe. This year’s EU-wide progress report, the second of its kind by the European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO), comes at a political juncture, being published shortly after the 2024 EU elections. While the composition of the EU’s legislative body will undoubtedly change, we expect that most representatives in the European Parliament will still agree on the necessity of the transition as envisioned in the Green Deal - not just for the sake of emission reductions, but also to guarantee Europe’s international competitiveness and its political autonomy. 

The European Green Deal has been a top priority for the European Union. Since 2019, EU institutions set ambitious targets, adopted bold carbon pricing reforms, and passed hotly debated legislation. The Green Deal’s success will be measured by its capacity to trigger structural changes in the EU economy, to deliver prosperity, resilience and social fairness while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In practice, this means millions of companies, local authorities and families investing to renovate buildings, acquire heat pumps, buy electric cars, and modernise transport and power networks.

Un marché aux idées avec la facilité Adapt'Action de l'AFD. L'adaptation est souvent présentée comme un flux Nord-Sud de capacités (financement, ressources humaines, connaissances) dans le cadre de l'aide au développement. Et en effet, des efforts sont encore nécessaires pour respecter les engagements financiers pris dans le cadre des COP et combler le déficit l’adaptation. Cependant, les pays du Sud, en première ligne face aux impacts du changement climatique, avancent déjà vers une meilleure préparation et sont souvent en avance dans leur appropriation du sujet.  

The race to climate neutrality is in full swing. The leading economic blocs across the globe implement wide ranging industrial policies to support and scale cleantech industries having understood their importance to create quality jobs, ensure prosperity and guarantee a higher degree of technological sovereignty.

This workshop is an activity of the European Union Climate Dialogues (EUCDs) project, aiming to provide a space to discuss country practices regarding the use of revenues from carbon pricing mechanisms, with a focus on the role of transparency and communication in ensuring buy-in for the carbon pricing policy. Inputs of this workshop will contribute to an EU-funded study being carried out by the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), which aims to enlarge and enhance the understanding of existing approaches on the use of revenues from carbon pricing mechanisms and support a switch to a comprehensive perspective on the implementation of decarbonization pathways that integrates carbon revenues.

This workshop is an activity of the European Union Climate Dialogues (EUCDs) project, aiming to provide a space to discuss country practices regarding the use of revenues from carbon pricing mechanisms, with a focus on the role of transparency and communication in ensuring buy-in for the carbon pricing policy. Inputs of this workshop will contribute to an EU-funded study being carried out by the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), which aims to enlarge and enhance the understanding of existing approaches on the use of revenues from carbon pricing mechanisms and support a switch to a comprehensive perspective on the implementation of decarbonization pathways that integrates carbon revenues.