ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

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Clean energy

Decarbonised energy intensive industries

Making cement, steel, and chemicals or refining crude oil requires large amounts of mostly fossil-based energy. These four energy-intensive sectors account for 24% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Though GHG emissions are decreasing slowly, preserving our future requires fast and large reductions from activities that emit the most. Energy-intensive industries must be weaned off fossil resources and CO2-emitting processes. Strong legislation and international standards can create incentives and remove barriers to make this important change.

What we are working on

  • To make construction products sustainable by default, we are working to remove barriers that prevent innovative products from accessing the market, particularly in the case of cement standards.
  • We are working at national, European, and international levels to make public procurement for construction truly green by 2030. We are building the demand for sustainable construction solutions by tackling the lack of mandatory green public procurement criteria.
Who we work with

Alliances and campaigns

Related news

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    Europe has all the tools necessary to ensure public money rewards innovative technologies, including low-carbon concrete. It only needs equal political ambition to be reflected in the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA).

  • Call for experts – industrial decarbonisation in Africa

    Interested candidates should be able to demonstrate in-depth technical and scientific knowledge on decarbonisation pathways for the future concrete and steel value chain. They should have a good understanding of international, regional, and national building codes, polices, and standards concerning construction materials and the construction of buildings and infrastructure.

  • Petrochemicals need defossilisation as much as decarbonisation

    Most of our daily lives have come to rely on petrochemical products: plastic packaging, car parts, building materials, synthetic clothing, electronics, paints, detergents, medical equipment… the list goes on. The industry brands itself as the “mother of all industries” for a reason: it sits behind countless products and value chains. And the climate footprint is massive.

Contact person
Federica Pozzi
Senior Programme Manager federica.pozzi@ecostandard.org
Tudor Cherhat
Programme Manager tudor.cherhat@ecostandard.org

ECOS is co-funded by the European Commission and EFTA Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EISMEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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