Energy, Resources and Climate Change
The Energy, Resources and Climate Change (ERCC) unit specialises in tackling complex policy and regulatory challenges related to the net-zero and green transition. The team provides cutting-edge research and informed policy recommendations in the domains of energy transition and renewables, circularity and sustainability policies, climate policy and industrial decarbonisation, and critical raw materials.
CEPS Staff involved
Next is the list of our inhouse experts working in this unit.
Vasileios Rizos is a Senior Research Fellow, heading the Energy, Resources and Climate Change Unit…
Monica Alessi is a Programme Manager at CEPS since September 2006, in the Energy, Resources and…
Francesca Chapman is an Associate Researcher in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change (ERCC) Unit.…
Christian Dietz is a Researcher in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change (ERCC) Unit at…
Christian Egenhofer is Associate Senior Research Fellow within the CEPS Energy, Resources and Climate Change…
Milan Elkerbout is a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at CEPS. Before starting a position as Fellow…
Nwamaka Ikenze is an Associate Researcher in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change (ERCC) Unit.
Irina Kustova is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in…
Luca Nipius is a Research Assistant at the Energy, Resources & Climate Change Unit at…
Edoardo Righetti is a Researcher in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change Unit at CEPS. His main…
Patricia Urban is a Researcher in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change unit at CEPS.…
Related Events
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Related Expert commentaries
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COP29 left many disappointed, seen by many as a choice between failure and disaster. Fair criticism but the Paris Agreement…
A wave of low-carbon steel projects should be launched across the EU by 2030 but how commercially viable they are…
The Western Balkans power sector is close to collapse. Approximately two-thirds of the Western Balkans' electricity is generated by lignite,…
The European Green Deal is committed to ‘leaving no one behind’. However, as shown in a study for the European…
In pursuing the EU's strategic autonomy and industrial competitiveness, offshore wind's significance cannot be overstated. President von der Leyen announcing…
The proposed Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) – one of three policy proposals constituting the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan, together…
The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) puts the EU in an uncomfortable position. At long last, the Americans pass legislation…
Not all COPs are made equally. After 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow – successfully hyped up by the Boris Johnson-led UK…
In the attempt to tackle increasingly disruptive energy prices, the European Union has been pushed into unchartered territory and has…
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has repeatedly made the point that the design of the EU’s electricity market urgently…
The Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a multilateral investment treaty on energy, is an ongoing process to better…
A tense debate is taking place on what to do about spiralling gas and oil prices. A special meeting of…
Related Publications
Here are the latest publications related to this topic.
Compliance with the EU’s carbon footprint requirements for electric vehicle batteries
An overview of challenges
Understanding the barriers to recycling critical raw materials for the energy transition
The case of rare earth permanent magnets
Implementing the EU digital battery passport
Opportunities and challenges for battery circularity
The solution to phasing out coal in the Western Balkans?
Extending the EU ETS to the region
Different roads, aligned goals
How and why the Inflation Reduction Act and EU green industrial policies differ in supporting cleantech deployment
Developing a supply chain for recycled rare earth permanent magnets in the EU
Challenges and opportunities
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
The W2W project will produce and validate a comprehensive framework for multi-dimensional cascade valorisation of wood from C&D and furniture…
Launched in January 2024, the PESCO-UP project focuses on transforming mixed polyester/cotton waste into high-quality and clean materials for the…
The need to approach climate action, resource efficiency, and circularity performance as integrated, economy-wide, cross-cutting issues is growingly gaining attention…
MultiFutures systematically broadens the scope for policy action towards sustainable societies by assessing and developing transition scenarios based on alternative…
The Horizon Europe project BLOW aims at unlocking the Black sea fLoating Offshore Wind potential, by demonstrating a disruptive cost-efficient floating integrative…
For the last two decades, European countries have faced unprecedented structural changes due to digitalisation, automation; the internationalisation of the…
Funded through the Horizon Europe Programme, the 4-year BATRAW project will help guarantee a stable raw material supply chain to…
The EU-GCC Dialogue on Economic Diversification project initiated its activities in April 2018. Its overall objective is to contribute to…
C4U is a holistic interdisciplinary project addressing all the essential elements required for the optimal integration of CO2 capture in…
The future of renewable energy and smart mobility depends upon permanent magnets (PMs), and those magnets depend upon Rare Earth…
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in chemical recycling technologies as demonstrated by various announcements for R&D…
This contract concerns the implementation of stakeholder engagement activities related to the EU eco-innovation policy and initiatives, especially in the…
The Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan sets outs 10 priority actions to accelerate the transformation of the EU’s energy…
The objective of this project is to analyse the compatibility of a simultaneous uptake of renewable hydrogen produced from electrolysis using wind and…
This six-year project, which started in April 2015 for three years and was followed by a second edition of another…
The EU-GCC Clean Energy Network, funded by the European Union, initiated its activities in 2010, as a response to the…
Climate neutrality will require negative emissions; beyond mid-century, net- negative emissions will become an obligation. The climate-neutral scenarios of the…
Green Steel for Europe supports the EU towards achieving the 2030 climate and energy targets and the 2050 long-term strategy…
CEPS analysed the closed and open questions for two open public consultations related to two legislative initiatives as part of…
CIRC4Life aims to develop and implement a circular economy approach for sustainable products and services through their value and supply…
The objectives of this project were to identify, present and communicate the opportunities from the Corona crisis for coal phase-out;…
The project addresses the question of how a fresh policy approach linking circular economy and climate change could look in…
The objectives of this project are: To bring the potential of the Black Sea renewable (wind) to the attention of…
CEPS is supporting through a partnership the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in implementing the project ‘Mainstreaming coherent and effective…
CICERONE, a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project, brings together programme owners, research organizations and other stakeholders to create a platform for…
The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) places an obligation on Member States to promote the availability to final customers of high-quality…
The output of this project is a policy brief, published by CEPS in the CEPS Policy Insights series on 19…
The study examines the current methodologies used for tracking climate-related and biodiversity-related expenditure in the EU budget. It identifies strengths…
The project aims at raising awareness about the European Cohesion Policy in South Europe through the realization of a global…
The objective of the project is to make an independent assessment of the role of forests, based on CEPS own…
CEPS, in cooperation with COWI, prepared a large study on the competitiveness of the renewable energy sector for DG ENER…
CEPS carried out this study for the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption of the European Economic and…
This report was conducted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) within the “Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of…
The Impact of Euroscepticism in the construction of Europe is a project under the EU program Europe for Citizensinvolving five cities, namely Gijón (Spain), Nüremberg…
CEPS was commissioned to carry out a “Comparative study on energy policies in the EU macro-regions”, within the framework of…
The overarching goal of SET-Nav was to support strategic decision making in Europe’s energy sector, enhancing innovation towards a clean,…
This project consisted in a report and related meeting supported by EUMICON, the European Mineral Resources Confederation. The report provided…
The project aimed to formulate and discuss ideas to further develop EU energy policy frameworks and funds that can enable…
The linear economy, wherein natural resources are obtained, turned into products and discarded as waste after limited time, was for…
The Study starts from the 2015 ESPAS Global Trends Report, which identified five global economic and social trends to 2030,…
The IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
Based on primary data collected from 189 plants over a 10-year period (2008-2017) via an email survey and follow-up interviews,…
The CARISMA project was a Coordination and Support Action funded by Horizon 2020 with two overall objectives. First, through effective…
This project involved an analysis of the carbon leakage risk indicators that will apply from 2021 onwards for EU ETS…
CEPS received a grant from the European Climate Foundation “to inform the decision-making processes at the European, regional and national…
2030 governance project (2015-17) CEPS' ECH (Energy Climate House) is partners in a project for the German energy ministry (BMWi)…
The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) is a knowledge platform to exchange data, experience and know-how and to collaborate on…
The EU budget imposes a considerable number of conditionalities on the Member States in use of the EU budget, and…
In compliance with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 250/2014 establishing the Hercule III Programme, the Evaluation Roadmap prepared by…
A Cumulative Cost Assessment (CCA) aims to identify, assess and, where possible, quantify the cumulative cost generated by selected areas…
The POCACITO project -foresight study for sustainable pathways towards liveable, affordable and prospering cities in a world context – was…
The aim of this action was to facilitate and guide the RES policy dialogue for the period towards 2030. This…
The GreenEcoNet project developed the first European-based platform to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in greening their business and…
This CEPS project focused on analysing the impacts of climate change mitigation measures and policies on the three pillars of…
The study consists of a Fitness Check on the Construction Sector in the policy areas of Internal Market and Energy…
This study examines energy prices for a selection of five energy-intensive sectors of EU industry: i) steel; ii) aluminium (primary…
POLIMP explored knowledge gaps about implications of possible directions of international climate policies for different policy and decision-making levels. It…
The objective of DIA-CORE was to ensure a continuous assessment of the existing policy mechanisms and to establish a fruitful…
CES-MED is a programme financed by the European Neighbourhood Partnership Instrument (ENPI), which is the main financial mechanism through which assistance…
FLAGSHIP is an FP7 project, funded by the European Commission (DG RESEARCH) under the “Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities” theme, with…
• Project conducted a systematic and consistent overview on the existing efforts to measure sustainable development and the transformation to…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition…
The objective of the NorthSeaGrid project was to outline the financial and regulatory barriers to implementation of an offshore grid…
The European Climate Platform (ECP) is a joint initiative by Mistra’s Climate Policy Research Programme CLIPORE and CEPS established in…
The aim of the APRAISE project (FP7) is to improve the decision basis for EU and national policy makers for…
Climate policy needs to aim at ambitious long-term climate stabilization. This will require managing the transition from carbon intensive to…
CEPS and the College of Europe are working together to conduct a survey to measure the uptake of GPP in…
As part of a framework contract to provide external expertise on energy and climate change policy, this study provided background…
As the contractor for this study CEPS analysed, together with ZEW, the relationships between public expenditures/revenues and the costs of…
The Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) of the European Parliament requested a briefing on the subject of…
The overarching aim of Mistra Carbon Exit is to develop societal pathways for the transformative change of the supply chains…
Related Task Forces
Here are the latest task forces organised by this unit.
Almost three years ago, the European Commission launched a comprehensive and aspirational New Industrial Strategy for Europe that highlighted its…
On 10 March 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was really starting to hit Europe, the European Commission launched…
Faced with the prospect of a long-lasting and traumatic Covid-19 pandemic, we at CEPS decided to step up our efforts…
The team of CEPS Energy Climate House is holding a Task Force on "The Role of Business in the Circular…
The Task Force Report can be downloaded here. The objective to reach 27% renewables by 2030, which was decided by the…
For many years the EU has been making gradual process towards the completion of an internal market for electricity and…
The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on the EU ETS Review Issues is the third initiative of the CEPS…
In current EU policy, the Electricity Directive (2009/72/EC) and the Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive (2006/32/EC) consider the…
Climate change has become a very important domain for EU policy. This refers not only to showing EU leadership in…
The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on New Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC is the first initiative of the CEPS Carbon…
The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on the CDM Policy Review is the second initiative of the CEPS Carbon Market…
To achieve the objectives of the 2000 Water Framework Directive, it is generally recognized by the EU and member state…
According to the EU ETS Directive (Art. 1), the objective of the ETS is to “promote GHG reductions in a…
The unstoppable race of commodity prices comes at a critical moment, when European and US economies are languishing in regaining…
CEPS launches a new Task Force which deals with “EU Transport Policy – Innovation, Integration and 21st Century Infrastructure”. The…
The Copenhagen Accord has brought a limited success in paving the way towards the creation of a wider and more…
Creating a global economy that emits a fraction of its current greenhouse gas emissions will not only require wholesale changes…
There has been an increasing interest by different stakeholders for cities to play a bigger role in climate change policy.…
Following the publication of the Second Strategic Energy Review by the European Commission in November 2008 and the adoption of…
Adaptation and mitigation for climate change are a global responsibility and the EU has to develop a common strategy to…
The revised EU Emissions Trading Scheme foresees auctioning of allowances as the default option. However, Article 10a of the Directive…
The CDM has been a great success to build up the institutional framework for a carbon market in developing countries,…
Main Findings of the Task Force Chair: Ulrika Raab, Senior Advisor, Swedish Energy Agency and Member of the CDM Executive…
Leading Institute: CEPS, participating organisation, Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) under the auspices of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
CEPS Task Force Report: Global Sectoral Industry Approaches to Climate Change: The Way Forward Authors: Christian Egenhofer & Noriko Fujiwara…
CEPS Task Force Report: Making the most of the G8+5 Climate Change Process: Accelerating Structural Change and Technology Diffusion on…
CEPS Task Force Report: Energy Policy for Europe: Identifying the European Added-Value Authors: Arno Behrens and Christian Egenhofer (CEPS, Rapporteurs)…
CEPS Task Force Report: Shaping the Global Arena: Preparing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the post-2012 Period Authors: Christian…
CEPS Task Force Report: Reviewing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Priorities for Short-Term Implementation of the Second Round of Allocation…
CEPS Task Force Report: Market Stimulation of Renewable Electricity in the EU: What degree of harmonisation of support mechanisms is…
CEPS Task Force Report: Towards a Global Climate Regime: Priority Areas for a Coherent EU Strategy Authors: Christian Egenhofer &…
CEPS Task Force Report: Business Consequences of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Authors: Christian Egenhofer, Noriko Fujiwara & Kyriakos Gialoglou…
CEPS Task Force Report: Rethinking the EU Regulatory Strategy for the Internal Energy Market Authors: Christian Egenhofer & Kyriakos Gialoglou…
CEPS Task Force Report: Completion of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the Emerging Global Climate Regime Authors: Christian Egenhofer…
CEPS Task Force Report: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in Europe Authors: Christian Egenhofer & Thomas Legge Emissions trading has been…
CEPS Task Force Report: Business and Sustainability in the European Union Authors: Richard Almgren & Wolfgang Hager Sustainability requires radical…
The CEPS Working Party on EU Climate Change Policy: Priorities for COP 6 ran during the first half of 2000,…