March 14, 2023 Cities, Embodied Carbon, European Union, Local Impact European Parliament passes EPBD recast with historic embodied carbon text Today, the European Parliament passed its Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast. Seeing the EU take this decisive action…
March 14, 2023 Cities, Embodied Carbon, European Union, Local Impact Open Letter: Call to vote for an EPBD that supports a fossil fuel and gas phase-out from buildings this decade Bellona Europa signed a letter alongside 11 signatory organisations calling on members of the European Parliament to support a true…
February 8, 2023 Cities, Climate change, Embodied Carbon, Local Impact European Parliament takes first encouraging steps toward regulating embodied carbon Today the European Parliament held two votes concerning embodied carbon: First, the ITRE committee voted on the Energy Performance of…
February 1, 2023 Carbon Capture and Storage, CO2 Infrastructure, Embodied Carbon, Energy Systems, European Union, Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Use, Industry Press Release: The Green Deal Industrial Plan: A welcome initiative but missing critical climate conditions While the intentions behind this Communication are welcome, the announced measures mostly summarise existing support mechanisms. But more importantly, the…
January 20, 2023 Embodied Carbon, Industry, Sustainable Economy Lead Markets 101 The fundamental step of creating green lead markets is to generate a comprehensive CO2-footprint of a good or service in…