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EU Deforestation Regulation: Call for a ‘Stop-the-Clock’ by 20 European associations

20 European organisations representing major players of the wood industry and forestry expressed concerns about the latest amendments proposed by the European Commission to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in a statement released on 27/10/2025. At the Environment Council in Luxembourg on 21/10/2025, the Commission proposed changes to the EUDR. The proposed timeline is to postpone the regulation's entry into force until 30/12/2026 for small and micro enterprises (SMEs) only, and to grant a six-month grace period for checks on medium and large enterprises, while maintaining the 30/12/2025 deadline for entry into force. The twenty organisations, including business associations such as the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois) and the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF), have asked the European Commission to introduce a 'stop-the-clock' mechanism for the Deforestation Regulation. This measure would give them more time to enable a reassessment of the Regulation's impact and implementation.

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INTERTANKO's concerns about the Net-Zero Framework

INTERTANKO (the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners) expressed concerns about the Net-Zero Framework (NZF), on 22/09/2025, in London. NZF plans to impose a global fuel standard and a pricing mechanism with set prices for GHG emissions from ships. The aim is to encourage the shipping industry to reduce emissions in order to comply with the global fuel standard. The NZF will be submitted for adoption at the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee's second extraordinary session (MEPC/ES.2), which will take place in London from 14 to 17 October 2025. INTERTANKO expressed their need to use transitional pathways, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biofuels during the energy transition. INTERTANKO members have asked that these pathways remain open within the IMO's NZF. To this end, INTERTANKO has declared that it is proactively engaging with governments before and during the MEPC ES. Notwithstanding the expressed concerns, INTERTANKO reiterates its support for a single international regulatory framework to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping. It outlines what the industry has done to reach the 2030 target, including: • the increasing use of energy-saving devices (including wind-assisted propulsion) • the evolving sustainable biofuel market the use of LNG and, in the…

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Data: 16% of EU GDP at risk of low-carbon transition, 9% in France, 43% in Poland (Bruegel study)

"We find that Sweden and France have low shares of GDP facing transition risk (8 and 9%), while Poland and Bulgaria have high shares of GDP facing transition risk (43 and 33%). The main driver is a country’s carbon intensity, the main dynamics are its transition preparedness", outline the authors of study titled "Measuring GDP at risk in the low-carbon transition" and published by the Bruegel think-tank on 25/08/2025. "Our results indicate the potential losses in GDP when the energy transition happens. Countries may adopt mixed strategies of speeding up transition in certain sectors and slowing it down in others, but they cannot insulate sectors from transition pressure forever. At some point, high-carbon sectors will become obsolete, leading to lost GDP. The policy challenge is to reduce GDP exposures to the energy transition", they continue. This study advises countries and policy-makers to: • Stimulate change towards low-carbon activities with a combination of taxes for high-carbon technologies and R&D subsidies for low-carbon technologies; • Accelerate reallocation of labour towards low-carbon technologies and sectors by investing in education and retraining.

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FR/GHG emissions: 190 Mt CO2e in the 1^st half of 2025, 0.6% lower than in 2024 (Citepa)

190 Mt CO2e is the volume of GHG emissions in France in the first half of 2025, as pre-estimated by Citepa (French study centre on atmospheric pollution) in its monthly emissions barometer for the period, published on 10/10/2025. The figure is 0.6% lower than for the same period in 2024, at 191 Mt CO2e. "After a slight increase of 0.9% (+1 MtCO2e) in the first quarter of 2025 compared to 2024, emissions fell by 2.5% (-2.1 MtCO2e) in the second quarter. This decline was mainly driven by the manufacturing and construction sectors, with respective decreases of 10% (-1.4 MtCO2e) and 6% (-0.6 MtCO2e) between the second quarters of 2024 and 2025. At the same time period, numbers show an increase of 1.5% (+0.5 Mt CO2e) for building use and 1.3% for agriculture/forestry (+0.5 Mt CO2e)", states Citepa. Trend between the first semester 2024 and 2025 by key sectors: • Emissions from the transport sector are down by 1.3% compared to the first half of 2024. The emissions of this sector dropped in the third year in a row. • Emissions from agriculture and forestry have increased by 1.3%, following a decline of 1% in the same period in 2024. • Emiss…

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FR/GHG emissions: 190 Mt CO2e in the 1^st half of 2025, 0.6% lower than in 2024 (Citepa)

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DATA: €14.6 Bn of green energy products' imports in the EU in 2024; €5.3 Bn of exports

"In 2024, the EU imported €11.1 Bn worth of solar panels, €2.9 Bn of liquid biofuels, and €0.5 Bn worth of wind turbines from extra-EU countries, totalling almost €14.6 billion in imports of green energy products", analyses Eurostat on 09/10/2025. The value of imported solar panels and liquid biofuels decreased by 43% and 25%, respectively, compared to 2023, due to a drop in prices, while the value of imports of wind turbines rose by 102% since 2023. The EU exported €0.7 Bn worth of solar panels, €1.8 Bn in liquid biofuels, and €2.8 Bn in wind turbines, totaling €5.3 Bn of green energy products' exports. China and India are the main import partners for green energy products in the EU. China accounted for 98% of solar panels' imports in the EU both in 2023 and 2024, and for 24% of liquid biofuels in 2024, compared to 36% in 2023. For wind turbines, India was the main import partner for the EU with 48% in 2024, and China was the second one with 43% in 2024. Liquid biofuels are imported products that come from the largest variety of countries: 24% from China, 15% from Malaysia, 13% from the UK, 12% from Brazil, 11% fro…

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DATA: €14.6 Bn of green energy products' imports in the EU in 2024; €5.3 Bn of exports

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Data: Water abstraction in the EU by economic sector between 2000 and 2022

"EU Member States have reduced their total water abstraction by 19%, from 242.000 M m³ in 2000 to 197.000 M m³ in 2022, due to better water conveyance (transport of water from its source to where it is needed), efficiency of use, and socio-economic changes. However, the goal to reduce water abstraction to below 20% of renewable freshwater resources by 2020 has not been achieved in all European river basins, and it seems unlikely that this will be achieved soon. Most water is abstracted for electricity cooling, agriculture, manufacturing, and public water supply", highlights the European Environment Agency in its 2025 Environment and Climate report. The largest economic sector for water abstraction is the cooling of electricity generation, which accounts for 22% of the total in 2022. Agriculture accounts for 29% of total water abstraction in 2022, public water supply for 21% and manufacturing for 15%. Construction & mining and quarrying each account for 1% of total water abstraction in 2022. Between 2000 and 2022, water abstraction declined overall, primarily driven by mining and quarrying (-29%), manufacturing (-28%), cooling in electricity generation (-27%), and agriculture (-17%). During the same period, water abstraction increased in public water supply (+10%) and construction (…

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Data: Water abstraction in the EU by economic sector between 2000 and 2022

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Biogas: "Standardisation and increased capacity as economic levers" (Arnaud Bossis, CVE Biogaz)

"Standardisation is a real lever for economic gains. The second lever is to increase the production capacity of the sites. Then we need to get digestate out of its current 'waste' status, and also to have the possibilit to build on farmlands", told Arnaud Bossis, Managing Director of French company CVE Biogaz, to News Tank on 04/12/2025. " We are aiming to produce 1.5 TWh by 2030. This represents around fifty medium-power sites. To produce 1.5 TWh, we need to mobilise 1.2 million tonnes of organic waste to feed our sites. That's roughly the same amount of fertiliser that we will be producing. And we could recover 50,000 tonnes of bioCO2 by equipping 50% of our sites with a recovery unit. This CO2 could be used to make e-fuels. The price of organic materials is tending to rise. Today, producers sell organic matter to the methanisation market, and this has an impact on the cost of producing biomethane. To offset this, we are trying to set up industrial synergies between several sites to optimise our operating costs; we are thinking about the use of stocks of maintenance parts, and we are also marketing the organic fertilisers we produce." BPA, CPB,…

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Biogas: "Standardisation and increased capacity as economic levers" (Arnaud Bossis, CVE Biogaz)

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"Politics and policy remain the main bottleneck to decarbonisation" (L. Gilliam / One Planet Port)

“While working on shipping policy in my earlier career, I realised that replacing fuels on board would not be enough. Even if we manage to produce enough renewable fuels, what is the point if the ships continue to carry goods with a high material and climate footprint? However, if we succeed in implementing policies that encourage society to live within 1.5°C and reduce its consumption and production to safe levels, it would have a significant impact”, declared Dr Lucy Gilliam, the executive-director at One Planet Port, a Rotterdam-based NGO, focusing on re-aligning global shipping and port operations within planetary boundaries. "We set up our organisation in Rotterdam because it is Europe’s biggest port and a hotspot of industrial activity. Fossil fuels are really dominant there, as well as the chemical sector. But, at the same time, the Netherlands carries a lot of green and innovative projects. All of these elements made Rotterdam’s ecosystem particularly interesting. Therefore, we thought that Rotterdam was the best place to start our work on transforming ports", said Lucy Gilliam to News Tank on 05/11/2025 . "The political environment is challenging. In many respects, Dutch society is encountering its own ecological and social limits", she said. Lucy…

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"Politics and policy remain the main bottleneck to decarbonisation" (L. Gilliam / One Planet Port)

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Launch of the Global FLOW (FLoating Offshore Wind) Ports Alliance on European western coasts

Three West European ports groups launched the Global FLOW (Floating Offshore Wind) Ports Alliance, a first step to bring together major floating offshore wind ports across the world, announced the ABP (Associated British Ports), one of the founding partners, on 14/11/2025 at Renewable UK’s FLOW Conference in Aberdeen (Scotland). Partners include the French company Brest Port, in Britanny, as well as Shannon Foynes Port, Ireland’s second largest port operator, before some other ports across Europe join the Alliance. The partners will collaborate on FLOW port design, standardisation, and best operational practices as they emerge through demonstration projects. The FLOW Ports Alliance also aims to strengthen and accelerate compliant knowledge between ports and share innovations to the benefit of the global FLOW network. “Participation in the FLOW Ports Alliance will help us deliver on this potential, as we pool the collective insights and expertise of the leaders in this sector across Europe. This is fundamentally about us all working together to realise the enormous economic and environmental dividend that Ireland, the UK, and mainland Europe will derive from floating offshore wind”, said Pat Keating, Chief Executive of Shannon Foynes Port Company. APB highlighted the potential of FLOW to provide clean energy while g…

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Launch of the Global FLOW (FLoating Offshore Wind) Ports Alliance on European western coasts

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EU Deforestation Regulation: Call for a ‘Stop-the-Clock’ by 20 European associations

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INTERTANKO's concerns about the Net-Zero Framework

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Data: 16% of EU GDP at risk of low-carbon transition, 9% in France, 43% in Poland (Bruegel study)

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FR/GHG emissions: 190 Mt CO2e in the 1^st half of 2025, 0.6% lower than in 2024 (Citepa)

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FR/GHG emissions: 190 Mt CO2e in the 1^st half of 2025, 0.6% lower than in 2024 (Citepa)

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DATA: €14.6 Bn of green energy products' imports in the EU in 2024; €5.3 Bn of exports

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DATA: €14.6 Bn of green energy products' imports in the EU in 2024; €5.3 Bn of exports

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Data: Water abstraction in the EU by economic sector between 2000 and 2022

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Data: Water abstraction in the EU by economic sector between 2000 and 2022

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Biogas: "Standardisation and increased capacity as economic levers" (Arnaud Bossis, CVE Biogaz)

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Biogas: "Standardisation and increased capacity as economic levers" (Arnaud Bossis, CVE Biogaz)

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"Politics and policy remain the main bottleneck to decarbonisation" (L. Gilliam / One Planet Port)

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"Politics and policy remain the main bottleneck to decarbonisation" (L. Gilliam / One Planet Port)

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Launch of the Global FLOW (FLoating Offshore Wind) Ports Alliance on European western coasts

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