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Five years into the implementation of the France 2030 strategy, the first results are visible: gigafactories in the “Vall\u00e9e de la Batterie”, ArcelorMittal’s final investment decision on a green steel furnace in Dunkirk, an emerging pipeline of synthetic aviation fuels. But subsidising projects is no longer enough.<\/strong>
\nWithout secured demand and a coordinated, targeted European framework, the French and European green industries risk skidding to a halt on the road to scale. Two new I4<\/span>CE<\/strong>\u00a0pieces set out the next steps to keep up the momentum.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In an op-ed for Les \u00c9chos, I4<\/span>CE<\/strong>\u00a0 Executive Director Beno\u00eet Leguet argues that French industrial policy must now pivot decisively from supply-side support to demand-side steering. The diagnosis is clear: firstly, gigafactories were built before critical input supply chains were secured. Secondly,\u00a0not a single European synthetic fuel project has reached final investment decision in the absence of long-term offtake contracts with airlines and fuel providers. The toolbox to fix this exists, but is underutilised and is incomplete:\u00a0mandatory environmental and local content criteria in public procurement, long-term contracts to secure offtake, standards that align private purchasing with industrial strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of the most powerful levers run through Brussels as much as Bercy \u2013 and the\u00a0Industrial Accelerator Act\u00a0<\/a>and the design of the next European multiannual financial framework (2028\u20132034) are precisely the frameworks France should help shape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This EU budget\u00a0<\/span>and in particular the proposal\u00a0for a European Competitiveness Fund is the focus of a blog by cleantech researchers Ciar\u00e1n Humphreys and Elena Schneider, reacting to the\u00a0European Parliament’s ITRE committee<\/a>\u00a0draft report on the matter.\u00a0The proposed Economic and Technological Advisory Council is a step forward for more targeted public spending, and a revival of some of the original ambition behind the Competitiveness Coordination Tool \u2013 but without a public data observatory and real coordination with Member States, \u20ac234 billion will not be enough to align twenty-seven national industrial strategies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Paris or Brussels, it is clear that green industrial policy is no longer short of plans or political ambition. What is needed now is the coordination to\u00a0pull demand, investment and disparate national interests in the same direction, towards a decarbonised, competitive industrial base.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsidising projects is no longer enough.
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