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Rarely does Europe get the chance to take a step back and reimagine its cleantech financing toolbox.

In the recent State of the Union speech, Ursula von der Leyen reiterated the need to stay on course towards Europe’s climate targets. In the coming months, the negotiations on EU’s Emission Trading System and the new framework for resilience and risk assessment will reveal the political and industrial forces at play, and if Member […]

The Innovation Fund is Europe's flagship programme for bringing breakthrough cleantech to market, but a growing share of its grant portfolio is stuck before financial close.

Returning from a summer marked by soaring temperatures, wildfires and drought, the EU is entering a season of decisive negotiations

Who could have predicted we'd endure an "unprecedented" summer in 2026, climate-wise? Unprecedented, like a chapter  of a good TV series. For Benoît Leguet, avoiding endless reruns of the same story— and their costs — means finding ways to factor future climates into our economic decisions. A topic for the EU's budget debate.  

he Clean Industrial Transition Monitor by the European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO) assesses real-world progress using more than 50 indicators and provides a comprehensive and nuanced picture of both progress and remaining gaps. 

ECNO's analysis is structured around 13 building blocks of the transition, tracking six-year trends across nearly 146 indicators, as well as the expected impact of climate-related public policies.

It is hot in Europe. Very hot. And the summer has only just begun. The recent heat wave in large parts of Europe reminds us that the forthcoming European framework for climate resilience and risk assessment comes with high stakes: it is about the safety of populations and the competitiveness of the European economy. 

On the cusp of the Age of Electricity, Europe is on a mission to both strengthen industrial competitiveness and accelerate decarbonisation. The European Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal serves as the blueprint to deliver this ambition.

With the entry into force of the European carbon farming certification framework (CRCF), the European Union now has a first-of-its-kind tool to certify climate-friendly agricultural and forestry practices.

An Improved Forest Management (IFM) methodology has been initiated under the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming regulation (CRCF), alongside a near-finalised afforestation methodology. As concerns grow over the declining capacity of Europe’s forests, determining which forest management practices should be incentivised through carbon certification is far from straightforward. 

In France, after the French “Low Carbon Label” (le Label bas carbone, LBC) certification scheme, there remains a systemic lack of funding for agricultural projects. Among the reasons mentioned by the agri-food industries is the fear of “double claiming”.

Once again, soaring oil prices are squeezing households' purchasing power, undermining industrial competitiveness, and exposing the EU's structural dependence on imported fossil-fuel energy.

The energy crisis exposes the EU structural vulnerabilities: accelerating investment in clean energy and low-carbon technologies is key to securing economic prosperity, energy independence, and households’ purchasing power.

The Industrial Accelerator Act: a stepping stone or paradigm shift? A reading of the European Commission’s propos

Subsidising projects is no longer enough. Without secured demand and a coordinated targeted European framework, the French and European green industries risk skidding to a halt on the road to scale.

What industrial policy should we pursue to support domestic cleantech, to secure our energy and industrial sovereignty?

The European Competitiveness Fund is the EU's best shot at financing its green industrial policy – if it is designed and targeted correctly.

European leaders gathered last week for a European Summit, with the objective, among others, of finding solutions to rising energy prices in the wake of the Middle East conflict.

In December, the European Commission launched a public consultation to inform the next revision of the regulation, scheduled for the last quarter of 2026. The Commission is particularly seeking stakeholders’ views on the need to transform NECPs into real investment plans.