Today, the most important event in Europe in the cleantech and policy – CleanTech Summit – is taking place in Brussels. At the event CleanTech for Baltics is represented by our board member Imants Martinsons.
The EU is facing a dual energy and climate crisis that is redefining its approach to climate change mitigation, energy security and competitiveness. Over the last 10 years, thanks to significant investments, Europe has become a power house of cleantech innovation. Innovative European companies are tackling major challenges: from decarbonising industry and energy with renewable hydrogen to producing low-carbon cement, from electrifying transport to recycling materials and batteries. But while Europe is great at inventing and developing clean technologies, we still struggle to scale and industrialise them. With competition heating up from the US and beyond, success in this scale-up effort is crucial to our future competitiveness. Faster industrialisation and deployment of next-generation clean technologies requires working together to remove common barriers to scale, such as financing, demand, permitting, skills, standards and more.
This Summit will focus on how the EU can step up its ambitions and become a global cleantech leader. Cleantech for Europe’s annual summit brings together cleantech CEOs and policy leaders to bridge the gap between the cleantech innovation and policy communities to jointly ensure Europe tackles these challenges with speed, scale, and simplicity.
