{"id":419880,"date":"2025-02-26T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/26\/clean-industrial-deal-ue-decarbonizzare\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:45:34","slug":"eu-unveils-its-clean-industrial-deal-to-drive-decarbonization-and-re-industrialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/26\/eu-unveils-its-clean-industrial-deal-to-drive-decarbonization-and-re-industrialization\/","title":{"rendered":"EU unveils its Clean Industrial Deal to drive decarbonization and re-industrialization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – As announced by President Ursula von der Leyen, in the first 100 days of the new European Commission’s term, the European Commission presented the\u00a0Clean Industrial Deal<\/strong><\/a>. The manufacturing sector, the political world, and civil society have waiting for months for this document\u00a0that aims to support the competitiveness and resilience of European industry, accelerate decarbonization, and combine\u00a0it with the re-industrialization of the Old Continent. <\/strong>After reports in recent days about the content, clarity came on the resources earmarked for the clean transition: “In the short term,\u00a0the Clean Industrial Deal will mobilize over\u00a0100 billion euros to support clean Made in EU production.<\/strong> This amount includes an additional \u20ac1 billion in guarantees under the current multi-year financial framework,” according to the\u00a0document.<\/p>\n

For von der Leyen<\/strong>, the Clean Industrial Deal is\u00a0“to cut the ties that still hold our companies back and make a clear business case for Europe.” For the Commissioner for Climate<\/strong>, Wopke Hoekstra<\/strong>, “it is a turning point for the European economy” and “does not turn its back on climate action.” On the contrary,\u00a0“With this plan, we aim to reduce industrial emissions by up to 30 percent,” he pointed out at the press conference. The Enterprise and Made in Italy Minister<\/strong>, Adolfo Urso, <\/strong>is more cautious. “I think we judge the plan only where there are the plans for the sector,” he said in response to a question on the sidelines of a hearing before the House Environment and Production Activities joint committees on nuclear power. “There is a need for more concreteness, for adequate resources to support companies in this great challenge. It is good that we are finally talking about clean industry and not the green deal, but there is a need for speed, concreteness, and adequate resources: we need to get out of the fairytale of the Mulino Bianco,” he stressed.<\/p>\n

In detail, the Clean Industrial Deal focuses primarily on two closely related sectors<\/strong>: energy-intensive industries and clean technologies<\/strong>.\u00a0Energy-intensive industries “urgently need support to decarbonize and electrify” as “the sector faces high energy costs, unfair global competition, and complex regulations that hurt its competitiveness.” Clean technologies are “at the heart of future competitiveness and growth, as well as crucial to industrial transformation.” Moreover, the plan emphasizes\u00a0that circularity is central because it is instrumental in\u00a0maximizing the EU’s limited resources and reducing over-reliance on third-country raw material suppliers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, there are business ‘drivers’<\/strong>\u00a0for industry to succeed\u00a0in the EU. The first of these\u00a0is action to reduce energy costs<\/strong> — on which the Commission today proposed a dedicated Action Plan — to accelerate the deployment of clean energy and electrification, complete the internal energy market with physical interconnections and efficiency, and reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels. Next, the Clean Industrial Deal aims to boost demand for clean products<\/strong>. In this regard, “The Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act will increase demand for EU-made clean products by introducing sustainability, resilience, and made in Europe criteria in public and private procurements,” and “With the review of the Public Procurement Framework in 2026, the Commission will introduce sustainability, resilience, and European preference criteria in public procurement for strategic sectors.”<\/p>\n

The third driver is that of funding<\/strong>. Here, the Commission will adopt a new state aid framework that<\/strong> will “allow for simplified and quicker approval of State aid measures for the roll-out of renewable energy, <\/strong>deploy industrial decarbonization, and ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity of clean tech.<\/strong>” It “will strengthen the Innovation Fund and propose an Industrial Decarbonization Bank,<\/strong> aiming for 100 billion euro in funding, based on available funds in the Innovation Fund, additional revenues resulting from parts of the ETS as well as the revision of InvestEU.” It will also “Amend the InvestEU Regulation to increase InvestEU’s risk-bearing capacity. This will mobilize up to \u20ac50 billion in additional private and public investment, including in clean tech, clean mobility, and waste reduction.” Finally, the European Investment Bank Group<\/strong> (EIB) will\u00a0launch a series of new instruments to support the Clean Industrial Deal<\/strong>: a ‘Grids manufacturing package’ to provide counter-guarantees and other de-risking support to manufacturers of grid components; a joint European Commission-EIB pilot program of counter-guarantees for Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) undertaken by SMEs and energy-intensive industries; and the launch of a CleanTech guarantee Facility under the Tech EU program powered by InvestEU.<\/p>\n

Finally, the other drivers are circularity and access to raw materials<\/strong> with a mechanism for European companies to come together and aggregate their demand for critical raw materials and with the adoption of a Circular Economy Act in 2026 to ensure that scarce materials are used and reused efficiently.\u00a0The ultimate goal is to have 24 percent of materials\u00a0circular\u00a0by 2030. The Commission will act on a global scale\u00a0by launching\u00a0\u00a0Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships and\u00a0training workers <\/strong>with the establishment of the Union of Skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Commission presented the document-which has been awaited for months by industry and civil society-focusing on high-intensity industries and clean technologies. It puts circularity at its core to optimize the raw materials that are most scarce in the Old Continent. In the short term, it will mobilize up to 500 billion euros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7874,"featured_media":419873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[30598,26991,27547,26884,30127,30599,26520,25921],"class_list":["post-419880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-clean-industrial-dea-en","tag-clean-tech-en","tag-decarbonization-en","tag-commissione-ue-en","tag-hoekstra-and","tag-industrialization-en","tag-urso-en","tag-von-der-leyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419913,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419880\/revisions\/419913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}