The Sustainable Products Initiative disappeared from the Commission’s planned agenda for 14 December. Instead, this crucial initiative will be pushed to 2022 - this is not a surprise. Our recent report shows that the Commission has been actively defunding ecodesign and energy labelling, two incredibly successful policies which lie at the heart of the SPI. Delays in ecodesign and energy labelling updates are estimated to account for a total 10 million tonnes (CO2eq) of additional emissions by 2030 – as Coolproducts calculations show. Au revoir to SPI in 2021.