Questionnaire – Second EU-China Energy Cooperation Roadmap Stakeholder Consultation

New China climate targets are a game changer in the global fight against climate change. The EU and China have built over the years a robust mechanism for cooperation. In 2016, EU and China published the EU-China Energy Cooperation Roadmap 2016 - 2020. We are now reaching the end of 2020 and the EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform (ECECP) has launched a stakeholder consultation to develop the 2nd EU-China Energy Cooperation Roadmap which will establish the lines of cooperation for the next five years

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Junior Postgraduate Fellows Innovation Series: Fostering Clean Tech Innovation in Europe – The Solutions Contest of a Non-profit Foundation

The Solar Impulse Foundation was behind the first solar-powered flight around the planet. Now it is aiming to support the clean tech innovation ecosystem by devising and promoting a label for green solutions that are clean, efficient and profitable. Markus Fischer, ECECP Junior Postgraduate Fellow, virtually talked with Remy Kalter, the Foundation’s Head of Public Affairs, and Victoria Smaniotto, Head of Solutions Outreach to better understand how this challenge works. I learned that firs

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Junior Postgraduate Fellows Innovation Series: More than negative emissions: Direct Air Capture and Storage

An interview with Daniel Egger, Department Head Marketing & Sales at Climeworks The EU and China have both set ambitious climate targets to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 in the EU and by 2060 in China. To reach this goal in line with the Paris Agreement, the energy transition needs to accelerate and we will need to remove approximately 10 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. Some sectors are notoriously hard to decarbonise, with heavy industry, aviation, and shipping among others contributing up to 27% of global CO

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