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CCS and CCU: Breakthrough technologies for EU’s industrial transition to a climate neutral future
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The upcoming EU Industrial Strategy will be critical to enable European industry’s contribution to the 2050 goal and to build a prosperous and sustainable economic future for Europe.
We call on the European Commission to consider all options for reducing emissions, including Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture and Use (CCU), as effective climate mitigation measures. In combination and synergy with renewable energy carriers, such as carbon-neutral electricity and hydrogen, CCS and CCU are essential to achieve net zero GHG emissions in Europe while maintaining a competitive, growing and innovative European industrial base. These technologies can contribute to preserving industrial activity in the continent and are a key enabler of new products and technologies. Consequently, it will help preserve jobs in existing industries and create new employment opportunities in those new industries, employing Europe’s future workforce.
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Brussels, 10 September 2024 – The Draghi Report thoroughly identifies the bottlenecks to both the EU industry's decarbonisation and competitiveness. The proposed recommendations for energy-intensive industries, including on energy, trade, carbon leakage, financing and lead markets, should be integrated into the upcoming Clean Industrial Deal and implemented with concrete measures as a matter of urgency. Alignment across different policies is crucial, and should be accompanied by sector-specific initiatives to enable the transition of each industry including steel, asks the European Steel Association.
Brussels, 05 September 2024 – The latest developments in the steel sector and across critical value chains are worrying signs of a steady deterioration, endangering the survival and the transition of steelmakers and their key manufacturing customers in Europe, such as automotive. A Clean Industrial Deal including swift and radical measures in EU industrial, energy and trade policies, is the last chance to ensure Europe’s prosperity and shield European industry from cheap imports driven by third countries’ unfair trade practices, overcapacity and lower climate ambition, urges the European Steel Association.
Brussels, 25 July 2024 – Major indicators in the European steel market show a steeper-than-expected downward trend, further impacting the outlook for this year and the next. Poor demand conditions, driven by ongoing factors such as high energy prices, persistent inflation, economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, are exacerbated by a manufacturing crisis affecting the largest steel-using sectors, including construction and automotive. According to EUROFER’s latest Economic and Steel Market Outlook, apparent steel consumption is further deteriorating. After a slump (-3.1%) in the first quarter of 2024, its rebound for the full year has been revised downwards (to +1.4% from +3.2%), as well as for 2025 (+4.1% from +5.6%). Similarly, output in steel-using sectors, after a decline in the first quarter (-1.9%), is projected to experience a deeper-than-expected recession (-1.6% from -1%). A recovery is anticipated only in 2025 (+2.3%). Steel imports continue to show historically high shares (27%).