Celanese

Celanese welcomes the European Commissions legislative initiative on the Circular Economy Act and fully supports its objectives to improve resource efficiency and industrial value chains. In this context, we wish to underline the critical importance of explicitly including Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) or carbon recycling as a key pillar of the act. CCU technologies are circular by nature.

Celanese highly welcomes the European Commissions legislative initiative on CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets as a necessary first step of a fully-fledged EU CCUS policy framework. However, it is of critical importance for the upscale of CCUS technologies in Europe that this framework is completed with all necessary provisions encompassing the capture, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 in all…

International carbon credits can play a key role to promote global trade of CCU-based materials that feed into European manufacturing activities, while accelerating the defossilisation of chemical value chains. The chemical industry uses carbon as a production feedstock, in substances or mixtures that are necessary to produce e.g. polymers, advanced materials, construction products, etc.

Celanese welcomes the European Commissions preparation of the post-2030 EU climate framework. As a global chemical and specialty materials company with significant European industrial operations, and as a pioneer of commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technology, we submit this contribution to advocate for a framework that is ambitious, technologically neutral, and genuinely inclusive of all…