Publications

Recent publications

Tools to boost investment in low-carbon technologies

26 September 2018Milan Elkerbout, Christian Egenhofer

Objectives set by the EU in line with the Paris Agreement will, over time, lead to demands for greenhouse gas emissions reductions including, increasingly, from energy-intensive industries that can only be fulfilled by rapid deployment of breakthrough low-carbon techn

Prospects for electric vehicle batteries in a circular economy

12 July 2018 Eleanor Drabik, Vasileios Rizos

Electric vehicles are a key technology to decarbonise the road transport sector and their use is expected to increase, thereby increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries.

The European Battery Alliance: Ambitions and requirements

04 May 2018Aurélie Faure-Schuyer

A European alliance of battery manufacturers (European Battery Alliance) was launched in 2017. This contributes provides some insight into the Alliance’s strategy and the challenges it faces before publication of the review of the Clean Energy Package.

The Role of Business in the Circular Economy: Markets, Processes and Enabling Policies

28 March 2018Vasileios Rizos, Arno Behrens, Eleanor Drabik, David Rinaldi, Katja Tuokko

The circular economy is attracting significant interest worldwide, as evidenced by the numerous government strategies, business commitments and partnerships devoted to its development.

Should all producers of renewable energy automatically receive GOs?

13 March 2018Jaap Jansen

In this contribution, Jaap Jansen finds that the practice of automatically issuing guarantees of origin (GOs) to all producers of renewable energy undermines EU energy and climate objectives.

Stakeholders views on the Ecodesign Directive: An assessment of the successes and shortcomings

01 March 2018Christian Egenhofer, Eleanor Drabik, Monica Alessi, Vasileios Rizos

As part of the European Parliament's European Implementation Assessment of the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC), Christian Egenhofer, Eleanor Drabik, Monica Alessi and Vasileios Rizos contributed a Briefing Paper entitled "Stakeholders views on the Ecodesign Directiv