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Summary of E3G's recommendations for the Circular Economy Act - for the full feedback, please see the attached document: 1) Set overarching EU targets on resource use, accompanied by a comprehensive monitoring framework to create long-term predictability.

The long-term competitiveness of Europes energy-intensive industries depends on their ability to decarbonise. While many low-carbon projects have already been announced, investors are currently struggling to reach final investment decisions due to a lack of investment certainty and the right enabling conditions.

Accounting for 14% of EU GDP, public procurement holds significant potential to drive the EUs policy objectives, including its climate targets, but remains underutilised. E3G supports a review of the Public Procurement Directives to ensure public spending supports strategic objectives, such as decarbonisation, resilience and social responsibility.

THE EUROPEAN CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE E3G Submission to the Call to Evidence The EU stands at a pivotal moment. The European Commission can design a climate resilience and risk management initiative that is comprehensive, coherent, and ambitiousmatching the scale of the challenge. This submission highlights five key areas: 1. Definition of climate resilience 2.

The EU energy system must evolve rapidly to deliver a secure, decarbonised, and competitive economy. Electrification is central to this goal, and Europes electricity grids must be transformed to support the integration of renewables, meet rising demand, and enhance resilience.

The publication of the EUs Electrification Action Plan, together with the Heating and Cooling Strategy and the Citizens Energy Package, is a key political moment to ensure the energy transition delivers real tangible benefits for citizens and industry in Europe.

When the first Heating and Cooling (H&C) strategy was published in 2016, European buildings had an efficiency rate below 60% and renewable energy in the sector was under 10%. Progress is being made: the share of renewables in heating and cooling reached the highest share of 26.2% in 2023 and between 2005 and 2022, total ghg emissions in the EU building sector fell by 34%, driven in large part by progress in…

Since its adoption in 2018, the Governance Regulation of the Energy Union and Climate Action has given member states the tools to plan for a clean transition that delivers on shared targets. The five dimensions of the Energy Union strategy decarbonisation, energy efficiency, the internal energy market, energy security, and competitiveness and innovation have provided the framing for the work that has been…

The European Commissions upcoming revision of the energy security framework can serve as an opportunity to both embed lessons from previous energy crises, update tools to reflect evolving needs and go beyond traditional security approaches to deliver a safe and resilient clean energy system. A clean, European-powered energy system is fundamentally different, and more complex, than a fossil-based one.