{"id":64706,"date":"2023-11-21T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.i4ce.org\/?p=64706"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:44:16","slug":"cleantech-divide-looms-europe-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.i4ce.org\/en\/cleantech-divide-looms-europe-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleantech divide looms in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Investment in the development of the cleantech sector in Europe is too slow and <\/strong><strong>unevenly spread across EU member states and despite its best intentions, it is not clear that the EU\u2019s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) will rectify this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unveiling the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) earlier this year, Ursula Von Der Leyen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/news\/eus-net-zero-industry-act-aims-to-bring-home-clean-tech-production\/\">declared it would<\/a>\u00a0\u201ccreate the best conditions for those sectors that are crucial for us to reach net-zero by 2050: technologies like wind turbines, heat pumps, solar panels, renewable hydrogen as well as CO2 storage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Progress in the development of the cleantech sector still needs to be faster, and investment across EU member states is unevenly spread. And despite the best intentions, it is unclear whether the Act, which MEPs vote on this week, will rectify this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Net Zero Industry Act sets ambitious targets for increasing Europe\u2019s cleantech manufacturing capacity. However, tweaking the EU\u2019s regulatory architecture will only get us so far. To truly grow Europe\u2019s green industry, an ambitious, EU-level Cleantech Investment Plan should be the next priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s current investment offer is not up to this challenge.\u00a0 The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP), the proposed investment package supporting the Act, lacks muscle. If passed, it would see just \u20ac10 billion of public funds invested across cleantech, deep tech (such as AI) and biotech \u2013 hardly enough to spark an EU-wide wave of growth. For perspective, Germany offered the same to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-19\/germany-intel-agree-subsidies-for-chip-plant-worth-10-billion\">one microchip plant<\/a>, and has spent billions more in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/economy-jobs\/news\/analysis-eu-subsidy-race-is-on-and-germany-is-winning-it\/\">subsidies<\/a>\u00a0to its economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy\/opinion\/cleantech-divide-looms-in-europe\/\" class=\"external_link \" target=\"_blank\">Read the article in Euractiv&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in the development of the cleantech sector in Europe is too slow and unevenly spread across EU member states and despite its best intentions, it is not clear that the EU\u2019s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) will rectify this. 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