In brief | 17 July '24
EU Council
The EU approved Germany鈥檚 amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional 鈧�2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating Germany鈥檚 transition towards clean energy by increasing the share of renewables in the German energy mix.
Euractiv:
Exempting agriculture from net-zero climate plans, stronger support for farmers and the demand for simpler rules for national administrations are among the key requests emerging from a debate held in the Council on Monday (15 July).
Bruegel:
A comparison of clean-tech manufacturing and deployment trends in the U.S. shows rapid advances but still under-used capacity.
ECA:
The EU has had mixed success in providing the building blocks for the emerging renewable hydrogen market, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors.
Bloomberg:
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Chancellor will visit Belgrade this week to secure supplies
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Serbian court last week cleared the way for Rio Tinto project
Bloomberg:
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Several governments abstained in secret non-binding ballot
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The bloc is acting on findings of anti-subsidy investigation
Bloomberg:
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 One option under discussion includes scrapping the fund
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Utilities warn of funding gap from looming uncertainty
Communications Earth & Environment:
Novel carbon dioxide removal technologies, such as direct air carbon capture and storage, scale to multi-gigatonne levels by 2050 and beyond to balance residual emissions and draw down warming.
Euractiv:
France submitted its final national energy and climate plan (NECP) to the European Commission on Wednesday (July 10), ten days after the legal deadline. The plan includes a 2030 target for renewable energy, which the French government had previously resisted.
Reuters:
Greece will impose a one-off windfall tax on its power producers over the next two months and use the proceeds to help subsidise power bills for households already strained by a cost-of-living crisis, prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.
