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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 11/09/2025

🚗💨As cars cruise on roads, they’re not just burning fuel, but driving massive demand for steel. Most of that steel is made with coal. The cost? Communities choking on pollution, facing higher risk diseases—even dying. With the IAA car show ongoing, the carmakers must start demanding #GreenSteel.

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Clean cars need clean steel

The electric vehicle revolution is already slashing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation – but what if it could do even more?

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

💥Exciting new role! If you enjoy working with data & understanding the story it tells, while collaborating closely with climate campaigners & policy advisors that drive change, this #job is for you. ‼️Remote in Europe timezone 🗓️Apply by 23 September at 12:00 CEST at bit.ly/45iKes7

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 28/08/2025

The nexus between trade and industry is a hot topic for the coming months. We responded to the EU Commission's call for evidence on #CBAM with a 5-point submission, demanding that it will not be turned into a pure protectionist and trade defence measure.

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Submission to consultation: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

The implementation of the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) aims at staying the course with the broad policy toolbox and objectives put forward in the past EU mandate, as stated by the newly e...

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 14/04/2025

⛓️The transition for European #GreenSteel is not cheap but we cannot say that the money is not there. What is needed now is the political will to make it happen and an industrial willingness to accept that business as usual will not save the sector. @borisjankowiak.bsky.social writes ➡️

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"But that is the price of survival, and it is the challenge that the steel industry urgently has to meet"

EU steelmakers have gorged on public money without taking steps to decarbonise or prepare for the future. State aid should go on, but with conditio...

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WWF EU @wwf.eu · 16/04/2025

👀 Read the Op-ed from our colleague at @caneurope.org on #GreenSteel: State aid must be calibrated to save European steel industry @borisjankowiak.bsky.social mentioned our latest #ETS report, written with @carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social Find out more in our report 👉 www.wwf.eu?17151291/cle...

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A Clean Industrial Revolution in Europe

With the EU debating its 2040 climate target and an upcoming Clean Industrial Deal, now is the right time to look closely at the highly polluting sectors under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). T

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 03/04/2025

🔎Spotlight on steel at @europarl.europa.eu again this week. 🩺The diagnosis of European steel industry's trouble is widely shared but proposals for treatment vary. 🏭Current coal-based production model is incompatible with our climate targets and competitiveness endeavours = not at all future-proof.

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The State of the European Steel Transition

Every euro of public funds should drive a fair transition for workers and communities, cut the reliance on fossil fuels and accelerate renewables-based and circular steel production.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In case you missed it: join us tomorrow for the launch event of a report on the state of the steel transition, with a great panel! The difference with the late Steel and Metals Action Plan? This report brings the voice of civil society, often too less represented in industrial policy talks.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Hier, 28 ONGs publiaient un rapport sur l'état de la transition du secteur de la sidérurgie en Europe, quelques heures avant la publication du plan d'action métaux et acier de la Commission. Triste de ne pas lire une seule ligne sur ce rapport et sur les réactions de la société civile au plan.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

After the publication this morning of civil society's report on the transition of the steel sector, the Commission has released its Steel and Metals Action Plan (#SMAP). A short hot take:

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Quite a day for steel, with the steel and metals action plan awaited today #SMAP. But you might have missed this info from your news outlets this morning: civil society also has something to say on the steel sector's transition to ensure that the journey brings public benefits along the way:

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A transparent and fair transition for steel cannot do without a large participation from organisations representing public interests: social rights and environmental and climate protection. Read @caneurope.org Director's take on the recent "dialogue" for the future of the steel sector.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Alleged presence of civil society, but none of the organisations working towards a socially just and climate-proof transition of the sector for public interest has been invited. This worsens the corporate capture of industrial policy at EU level and jeopardises a fair and inclusive transition.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Today was marked in everyone's calendar in the EU policy space. Read our own @caneurope.org reactions on the 3-course meal presented by the Commission. A lot to unpack: despite good narrative elements on circularity, climate and decarbonisation, the only concrete milestone remains deregulation.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Happy to share our vision on what should a fair industrial policy looks like. 1 week before the clean industrial deal is release #CID, here's what @caneurope.org would like to see for a future-proof industry:

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"Southern EU member states, in particular, will not only experience severe economic losses due to climate effects, but will also feel the consequences of political instability in their geographical vicinity" Is the Italian government listening?

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Germany’s federal intelligence service report says #climatechange is a major threat to survival of the EU. This is not green hippies. This is the spy agency tasked with national security. is @eppgroup.bsky.social listening?

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 12/02/2025

EU is negotiating on a new long-term budget this year. Commission's roadmap to the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) leaves a gap in mobilising additional finance, crucial for the transition to climate-neutral economy based on renewables and the 'hot topic', European competitiveness.

“Without a strong investment mobilisation at the EU level, even the EU’s big plan, the Clean Industrial Deal, is bound to fail.”
Olivier Vardakoulias, Finance and Subsidies Policy Coordinator
at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe

The toxic combination:
1. EU’s flawed fiscal rules that are constraining the capacity of Member States to invest in the climate and energy transition
2. End of the Next Generation EU instrument, leaving €300 billion finance gap for delivering climate and Green Deal targets over the next EU budget cycle

We urgently need a vision and roadmap for a new joint borrowing instrument to replace Next Generation EU, backed by additional socially progressive pan-European taxes, to complement the regular MFF over the 2028-34 cycle.

We need:
- Minimum a €2 trillion-strong EU budget, composed of a €1 trillion green investment plan dedicated just to protecting our environment, phasing out fossil fuels, and ensuring the green transition benefits everyone.
- Expanding renewable energy capacity, storage and grids, building more public transport infrastructure, investing in genuine green technologies, climate resilience and circularity, and more whilst supporting people who are struggling with the cost of living crisis.
- Scaling up international climate finance through increased funding for external action, reinforcing multilateralism, supporting partner countries and communities to decarbonise, adapting to escalating impacts and addressing devastating losses and damages.

"The next long-term EU budget is the EU’s make-or-break moment for the next decade. It will determine whether Europe chooses to accelerate or stall ambitious climate action and a socially just energy transition. The reality is clear: Europe’s ‘competitiveness’, jobs and socio-economic resilience depend on leading the transition to a climate-neutral economy based on renewable energies, not delaying it."
Olivier Vardakoulias, Finance and Subsidies Policy Coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In case you've missed it: our @caneurope.bsky.social reaction to the competitiveness compass. 1/2 - I still wonder why competitiveness is the compass course we should follow, instead of aiming at a fair society that takes care of its people and planet? Competitiveness can help but is no end goal.

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Counter Balance @counter-balance.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨 Von der Leyen unveils the #CompetitivenessCompass today—but the leaks show it’s pointing the wrong way. Behind the buzzwords—‘cutting red tape,’ ‘slashing burdens’—lies a full-blown attack on social rights & environmental protections. Deregulation won’t build fair societies—this would 👇

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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

According to the EIB report "The most frequently mentioned long-term barriers to investment in the European Union are energy costs (83%), availability of skilled staff (81%) and uncertainty about the future (78%)" #CompetitivenessCompass

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gregvanelsen.bsky.social @gregvanelsen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I enjoyed talking to Foresightmedia on what to expect from the #CompetitivenessCompass, 'the North Star' guiding EU policies over the next five year. Might need some serious recalibration, press statement tomorrow foresightmedia.com/story/sGZDVo...

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Mapping a path to EU competitiveness

In today’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks at a leaked draft of the European Union’s Competitiveness Compass and why it matters, plus United States President Donald Trump is already having an impact o...

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Worth a read when you are going to see what the Commission unveils later today!

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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's not a good thing for citizens' trust in the EU that several of the elements in the draft #CompetitivenessCompass have been pushed by strong lobbying that the Commission has not documented correctly. www.politico.eu/article/eu-n...

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EU’s new economic vision is speaking to Green Deal critics

A draft document shows Brussels putting deregulation before decarbonization.

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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Interesting thread @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social on Commission Competitiveness Compass forthcoming.Indeed:no need for new "tools".Needed are strategic decisions - like strengthening public services I read Compass as Commission justifying push for deregulation.No clarity on [social] investment either

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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As corporate lobbyists intensify their efforts to weaken CSDDD, it is vital not to be fooled by their false narratives, such as... ❌CSDDD represents a massive burden for SMEs ✅SMEs aren't in the scope of CSDDD That’s why, in less than 2 weeks, we're launching✨the ultimate CSDDD Datahub✨

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 02/01/2025

This is nice, but it's not great 1) It's 1 train a day. By comparison 🇧🇪🇳🇱 just added 16 extra trains a day between Bruxelles and Rotterdam 2) 8 hours is more than most people will spend on a train 3) Upping Frankfurt-Paris from the current 6x a day to at least 12x would be much better

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 02/01/2025

(oh and while there are some tickets for €59, the chances you get that price are rather low. But the price is not really the problem here - we *do not have enough capacity on France-Germany long distance routes* - that's what needs fixing, not 1x a day Paris-Berlin)

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Tom Lewis @handle.invalid · 10/12/2024

Western Syria is covered by Israeli bombings. The idea that European countries are talking excitedly about sending refugees back is absurd. We don't know what the future holds, people will still be displaced and might need to seek refuge in Europe.

Map of western Syria, with many icons on bombs dropped by Israel

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Opportunity Green @opportunitygreen.org · 03/12/2024

🏭 Last week, the world’s 2nd-largest steelmaker #ArcelorMittal put its green steel plans across four European countries on hold, despite securing billions in public aid to transition away from coal-based production. Hear what our Legal Manager Kirsty Mitchell had to say.👇 #GreenSteel #Steel

The climate crisis can’t wait – European steelmakers like ArcelorMittal must seize the opportunity now to lead the transition to renewables-based steel.

Kirsty Mitchell
Legal Manager, Opportunity Green

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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

There shouldn't be another € spent on CCS infrastructure for the power sector until we have at least one fully functional CCS gas plant in the European market. Everyone knows gas plant operators hate the idea of actually having to do CCS. www.cleanenergywire.org/news/ngos-ur...

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NGOs urge strict limits on Germany’s CCS use, criticise law reform

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Decarbonisation of the steel sector has not yet happened, but 3 billion € are available. Today, the EU still produces CO2-intensive primary steel but tomorrow we do need a future proof and competitive steel industry for quality jobs. This anyway means a cleaner production, and stalling won't help.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/11/2024

And yes, the timetable on this line is poor, and the speeds low. *SO INVEST A LITTLE AND FIX IT* That lines like these were axed in 1985 might have made some sense then, but now it is ABSURD. We're facing a climate crisis, and WE KNOW IT. Invest, damn it.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

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François Malaussena (@malopedia) @malauss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

En tout cas, je trouve que ce serait pas mal que sur ce réseau, on évite de tomber dans le même piège que celui qui a si bien marché pour la droite sur twitter, qui a si bien prospéré en disant des conneries et en comptant sur l'indignation et la visibilité qui en résulte.

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Boris Jankowiak @borisjankowiak.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

ArcelorMittal backtracking on green H2 rollout to transform steelmaking operations in Spain, despite 460million€ worth of subsidies. This shows even more the importance of clear and timebound transformation pathways & strict conditionality of public aid. www.elnacional.cat/oneconomia/e...

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