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23 Nov EEA: 2020 Air quality report shows improvement in Europe’s air quality over past decade

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Europe has managed to make significant strides to improve the air quality according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) Air Quality in Europe - 2020 Report, which analysed air quality data from more than 4 000 monitoring stations across Europe in...

11 Nov Circular Plastics Alliance: A step closer to 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA), which gathers 245 public and private actors covering the whole plastics value chains, has delivered its first actions. Those delivered actions pursue the Alliance’s objective: to reach the target of 10 million tonnes of...

03 Nov EC: Application deadline nears for €10 million EU challenge for innovative electric vehicle batteries

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Noting that electromobility offers one of the best solutions to the challenge of environmental sustainability, the European Union, through its European Innovation Council (EIC), has issued a challenge to all researchers in the EU or in a country...

08 Oct CLEPA 2020 Innovation Awards ceremony goes digital!

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every year, the CLEPA Innovation Awards invites companies from across the automotive supply industry to share their latest and greatest efforts in innovation excellence. For 2020, the 5th edition of this flagship event, supported by Deloitte, will showcase...

07 Oct Accelerated sector transformation ups pressure on policy makers – Newsletter Editorial October 2020

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]An overview compiled by CLEPA of announced job cuts by automotive suppliers and vehicle manufacturers since March, when the COVID-19 crisis hit Europe, indicates that some 100,000 jobs in the automotive sector will be lost in the coming year, of...

07 Oct European Forum for Manufacturing: Technology-neutrality will empower climate targets

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The EU’s Green Deal will shape the future of Europe’s manufacturing economy. As such, its role in the automotive industry should be part of the conversation. With this in mind, CLEPA, together with EUROBAT, and hosted by the European Forum for Manufacturing (EFM) held an...

01 Oct Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, opposes ban on internal combustion engine

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The European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety exchanged views with Mr Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the Commission, on "Stepping up Europe's 2030 climate ambition". The meeting took place on the 28th of September. Frans Timmermans pointed out that the Commission...

21 Sep Joint industry letter to European Commission President: “The notification deadline for the SCIP database must be postponed”

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Monday 21st September, a coalition of 40 industry organisations wrote a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for decisive action to solve implementation issues within the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD), specifically the...

16 Sep 2030 Climate plan: Technology openness holds key to climate neutrality

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Automotive suppliers are in full support of climate neutrality by 2050 Any changes to vehicle targets for 2030 must take form in more comprehensive approach to regulating CO2 emissions Disruption rather than transformation puts jobs and competitiveness...

07 Sep EC: Actions to make Europe’s raw materials supply more secure and sustainable

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today, the Commission presents an Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials, the 2020 List of Critical Raw Materials and a foresight study on critical raw materials for strategic technologies and sectors from the 2030 and 2050 perspectives. The Action Plan looks at the...