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With 2.5 trillion euros on the table, public procurement can be a powerful tool for decarbonisation – and the European Commission is finally unleashing it. For the first time, EU procurement rules could consider more than only the upfront price tag, setting up Europe’s industries for a low-carbon future with benefits for taxpayers, the environment, citizens, and businesses. However, today’s draft Public Procurement Act leaves room for improvement, ECOS says, because it proposes to repeal existing sectoral legislation in key sectors, replacing it by a generic empowerment to procurers to include mandatory green public procurement rules.
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Press briefing, Brussels | The EU’s Public Procurement Act (PPA) will transform how 2.5 trillion euros of taxpayer money is spent across Europe – the bloc’s biggest opportunity to reward EU innovators, secure long-term investments in decarbonisation, and increase resilience.
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PRESS RELEASE | With today’s Electrification Action Plan [1], the European Commission has taken an important step towards a cleaner, competitive and secure Europe. But it could do more to deliver the full benefits of electrification, ECOS says, including making sure it is powered by renewables, prioritising energy efficiency, and better integrating heat pumps and electric vehicles with the electricity grid. It also overlooks the massive environmental impacts of data centres– a gaping hole that must be properly addressed at EU level.
Press release, Brussels | The EU’s new Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) deprioritises decarbonisation with insufficient and unclear public procurement measures for clean industrial products and low quotas for concrete and steel, environmental group ECOS says. Mainstreaming green public procurement is the EU’s most powerful climate solution, with the power to make or break Europe’s climate credibility. Stifling its potential will be a missed opportunity, ECOS explains.
The Rethink Plastic Alliance is deeply concerned by the Commission’s decision to allow the use of certain problematic, so-called ‘chemical recycling’ technologies to achieve the EU’s recycling targets. The first full recognition of ‘chemical recycling’ can set a dangerous precedent for future legislation.
Press release, Brussels | The bioeconomy is not inherently circular or sustainable, it must be built that way. The EU’s revised Bioeconomy Strategy takes some steps to do that, but it missed opportunities to do a lot more, environmental organisation ECOS says.
Press release, Brussels | New Eurostat data released today exposes the scale of Europe's overconsumption of electronics and the continued failure to properly collect and recycle electronic waste. Environmental NGOs are urging the European Commission to take decisive action in the upcoming revision e-waste legislation: stronger and binding measures to prevent waste and promote repair, reuse and proper collection (including reuse targets), and robust EPR schemes with eco-modulated fees that hold producers accountable for their products throughout their life cycle.
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