Tag: petrochemicals

• Reforming the Critical Chemicals Alliance governance

  31 civil society organisations have written to the European Commission expressing serious concerns about the Critical Chemicals Alliance (CCA) and calling for fundamental reform of its governance and approach.

• Who will finance the chemical sector’s modernisation?

  The European chemical sector faces two linked challenges: the need to move away from fossil fuels – both as an energy source and as raw material input – and growing pressure from competitors abroad. Both point the same way: toward significant investment in modernising how chemicals are sourced and produced.

• 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.