This “EU Green Bond Standard Usability Guide” aims to support potential issuers, verifiers and investors of EU Green Bonds. It provides guidance reflecting the latest changes in the draft model of the EU GBS.
This report builds upon the growing momentum for an EU industrial transition to net-zero amongst policy makers and industry, and sketches the blueprint of such an industrial strategy towards climate neutrality. It identifies policy options to address key challenges industry faces on the transition path to climate neutrality. It also indicates how this policy set can be integrated into an industrial strategy and what governance instruments could guide to a successful implementation. This report should be seen as a primer to a more detailed and comprehensive debate on the need, design, implementation, and governance of a European industrial strategy for climate neutrality.
While other sectors are accelerating their emissions reductions, the share of emissions from heavy industry is projected to increase dramatically under business as usual. As such, industry has a key role to play in the decarbonisation of the European economy to fulfill the EU’s commitments under the Paris agreement. This report explores the technical and economic aspects of the transition and suggests methods to be employed to enable climate neutrality in heavy industry.
The Nordic countries rank high in international reports of nations' progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Along with other industrialised countries, however, the Nordic countries have been ranked poorly in their progress towards SDG12, which concerns sustainable consumption and production. This report assesses Nordic countries’ progress towards SDG12, looks closer at their main challenges in achieving SDG12, and identifies recommendations that Nordic national governments and the Nordic Council of Ministers can adopt to accelerate progress in areas that are currently lagging.
This report identifies, classifies, and assesses the relevance of the potential determinants (drivers and barriers) that may explain the use of the cooperation mechanisms of the Renewable Directive 28/2009/EC in the past. The analysis of such historical evidence constitutes a very useful knowledge base to understand the factors that will likely determine the future of renewable energy cooperation in Europe.