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Cleantech for Europe‘s Policy Update - May Edition
June 3, 2026
No More Dependencies: Why Europe Needs Cleantech More than Ever. Welcome to the latest edition of Cleantech for Europe’s Policy Update, your one-stop-shop for EU cleantech policy news and analysis.
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April 10, 2026
Europe faces yet another grave energy crisis. Still reliant on fossil fuel imports vulnerable to supply disruption, Europe urgently needs to strengthen its energy security and decarbonise, all the while lowering energy prices for citizens and industry, and meeting growing electricity demand. The only way out of this predicament is to rapidly deploy domestic clean electricity and heat.
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March 17, 2026
Brussels Turns Up the Heat on Industrial Debates. Welcome to the latest edition of Cleantech for Europe’s Policy Update, your one-stop-shop for EU cleantech policy news and analysis.
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Over 100 businesses urge EU leaders to resist pressure to weaken ETS
Why Europe Still Struggles to Scale Its Homegrown Climate Tech
Calls grow to create 'Airbus' of EU cleantech
How Europe learnt to love subsidies
The controversial plan to set 'Buy European' rules
The 'made in Europe' conundrum
'European preference is a risk to healthy supply chains,' EU industries tell Euronews
Hitting the brakes on the Accelerator
The European cleantech movement that wasn't
Cleantech Is Facing Its Hardest Test Now: 2025 Provided False Comfort
European Clean Tech Investors Make the Case for Geothermal
Europe falling behind in critical minerals race
Iran talks stall, Hungary changes course
Europe risks missing geothermal opportunity without stronger policy support, coalition warns
Businesses and civil society urge Europe to seize next-generation geothermal
Impact VCs urge EU to unlock geothermal energy amid Iran war – fossil fuels 'dangerous and expensive'
Asian exporters like Toyota fear losing out under 'Made in Europe' law
Staff at Peter Mandelson’s former lobby shop left in job limbo
Vital or volatile: Why is the EU Emissions Trading System under pressure?
Large companies, investors urge EU countries to back Emissions Trading System
Row over EU emissions trading, as industry hits back at chemical lobby
Europe looks to shield consumers from high energy prices
EU 2040 target deal sets the stage for carbon pricing reforms in 2026
Climate research funding moves closer to the market, for better or worse
Companies swamped by 3,000 hours of paperwork to tap EU climate funds
EVP RIBERA CALLS FOR EU LEADERSHIP AT CLEANTECH FOR EUROPE SUMMIT
EU plans minerals stockpile centre to stop US snapping up supplies
EU Considers Forced Tech Transfers for New Chinese Investments - Bloomberg
Europe's ESG rules 'morphing into security agenda'
Trade pressures play on Europe's energy transition
Data shows the $750bn EU-US energy deal is out of touch with reality
Brussels split over state aid for clean tech production
AI boosts Europe’s cleantech, but investments still lag
MEPs push homegrown technology for green energy
32 MEPs launch Cleantech Friendship Group and meet with President Ursula Von der Leyen to champion EU clean technologies
Made in the EU: Europe insists it can decarbonise and reindustrialise
A business plan for a low-carbon, competitive European economy
Europe faces ‘scale or fail’ green industrial moment
New research finds Europe is off-track in building clean industrial capacity
Looser state aid rules aim to stoke clean tech demand
100 impact investors and founders join forces: EU needs 'bold action'
Scaling Cleantech Requires EU Capital Market Rethink
Bold steps for green industry demanded
Editor’s note: IRA tax credits live on
The Europe-US Clash Over Sustainability Intensifies: Cleantech Scaleups and Investors Demand Staying the Course Despite Trump
Drop in Investments: European Cleantech Companies Alert the Commission
“For an Ambitious Clean(tech) Industrial Deal,” the Climate Startups’ Letter to the EU
"It’s critical to achieve climate neutrality in Europe, but even more important to scale up and export solutions to help decarbonize the rest of the world.” --Luís Rebelo joins Cleantech for Europe
Will the EU use Trump’s victory to go for gold on climate or as an opportunity to go slow?
Editor’s note: all mouth and no trousers
“We can finance the green transition, or keep funding fossil fuels” – Dimitri Colin joins Cleantech for Europe
Cleantech Leaders Call for Swift Action on EU Competitiveness in Brussels
The Draghi EU competitiveness report - the reactions
“The pace of scaling asset-heavy solutions to the sustainability transition has never been faster” - P Capital joins Cleantech for Europe
Building to zero: Cleantech for Europe welcomes noa to our Investor Coalition
Using AI to power the cleantech transition
How teamwork could be Europe’s secret sauce on cleantech
There is no cleantech transition without electrification: An interview with Sven Heiligtag and Tommy Labryga
Lessons learned on navigating the Cleantech Venture Capital Landscape
Levelling Europe’s industry playing field
Clean tech sector and NGOs produce alternative election manifestos
Europe passes cleantech law everyone agrees is not enough
MEPs agree to give European clean tech manufacturing a boost
The economy wide opportunity of Cleantech 2.0 to drive Europe’s growth and competitiveness
Editor’s note: ‘Finance as usual’ is not an option
“Less ‘wishlists’, clear priorities and focus from policymakers” – eCAPITAL joins Cleantech for Europe
Cleantech trailblazers need more EU support
The EU’s plan for critical technologies ends up as a shadow of the promised sovereignty fund
It’s time for a European cleantech investment plan
Boosting clean tech in Europe
EU shifts spending focus from climate to defence
EU faces €50 billion cleantech funding gap, says report
Europe’s cleantech industry grows impatient for more ambitious investment policies
Why cleantech groups want the EU’s public lending arm to prop them up
EU Ambassadors reach negotiating mandate on STEP
Brussels, my love? EU plays good cop at a bad COP?
Decarbonising maritime transportation with green methanol
Decarbonizing Industrial Heat- an important puzzle piece to solving climate change
Uniting the digital and cleantech transition: An interview with Andreea Constantinescu
Removing carbon to reach zero: An interview with 2150
Energy Monitor: The EU is offering as much green funding as the US IRA. So why aren’t innovators getting it?
Driving to net zero: An interview with Max ter Horst
Politico EU Influence Newsletter
“Decentralise, decarbonise, electrify” – Vireo Ventures joining Cleantech for Europe
Funding the cleantech transition: An interview with Isabelle Canu
US green technology investment leaves Europe in the shade
“The Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) survival game: decarbonization as a catalyst for longevity and purpose” – Aster Fab’s Hélène Maxwell shares her views
“The Italian cleantech space has great potential!” MITO Technology joins Cleantech for Europe’s Investor Coalition
Chasing Positive Impact on Climate: Zach Sporn Joins Cleantech for Europe as Communications Director
Europe races for energy competitiveness as global ‘Green Wars’ intensify
Not ambitious enough? EU’s climate tech bill gets mixed reaction
EU’s net zero plans will fail without more money, warn industry chiefs
EU’s Net-Zero Industry Act aims to bring home clean tech production
Net Zero Industry Act sets ambitious permitting rules, but stronger market signals for cleantech are needed
Rishi Sunak & Bill Gates attend Cleantech for UK launch event with leading cleantech start-ups, accelerators and investors
"Innovation is our best bet to solve the climate crisis!" - Suzana Carp joins Cleantech for Europe
In green subsidy race with US, EU lacks focus
Tough love: Europe needs to ’level the playing field’ after US Inflation Reduction Act
EU Prepares to Offer Clean Tech Tax Breaks to Compete With U.S. Green Subsidy Push
Getting Europe's Cleantech Act Together
