One year into a new political mandate, Europe stands at a crossroads. With war still raging in Ukraine, a global trade war kicking off, and economic stagnation, the EU looks smaller than the sum of its 27 parts. Plagued by high energy costs, fragmented markets and Chinese overcapacity, European industry is locked in a downward spiral, unable to invest in its own future. What Mario Draghi described as a « slow agony » has never felt closer.

Yet at the same time, Europe has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to seize. Large investors are looking to diversify away from the US. Political support for the rise of clean industry has never been higher. And world-class cleantech innovators are bringing revolutionary solutions to market - despite limited funding, lengthy bureaucracy and unfair competition from outside the EU.
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Europe must  choose: lean in and lead, particularly in clean industry, or risk being led. To lead would bring daunting challenges: we would need to re-invent ourselves, act decisively and turn our bureaucratic institutions into nimble supporters of an industrial renaissance. Not to lead would mean giving up our dual climate and industrial leadership, and losing the resources to sustain our social contract.

In this make or break moment, Cleantech for Europe Summit 2025 will gather the highest levels of policy and cleantech representatives to chart a common path to leadership through reindustrialisation. The Summit is an invite-only event, limited to 150 participants, and focuses on high-level discussions.