Attention Journalists in Brussels and Berlin: New Coffee & Cleantech Format to Kick Off Soon! We are pleased to announce that we are adding a new, innovative format to our technical briefing series for policymakers, Coffee & Cleantech! In addition to the classic briefing, we will introduce a session for journalists in Brussels and Berlin, respectively. "We have observed strong interest from journalists for some time and have decided to add a customized format to our technical briefing," says FCA's EU Policy Manager Dr. Marlène Siméon. Our colleague Juliane Harlfinger, responsible for media relations, adds: "We have further developed the technical briefing to include topics of interest to journalists, such as identifying greenwashing in communications by public and corporate actors." We look forward to welcoming you to our sessions in Brussels (October and December) and Berlin (November). For more information, please see our website: Peter Schniering Antoine Koen Magnolia Tovar Leonie Brand Francesca Brunner Ingrid El Helou Peter Ruschhaupt Martin Schifferings Christina Martelock
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We are a climate innovation think tank. We exist to close the remaining innovation gaps to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. To reach this objective, we accelerate innovation in critical industries – such as cement, aviation or shipping – where sustainable solutions are still in very early stages. We urge policy-makers to intensify and better prioritize their R&D activities. Moreover, we initiate and actively drive high-level research consortia on critical technologies for these neglected technological sectors. Connect with us to join this mission or support our work.
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Continuing Our Work on High-Temperature Heat | From Munich Security Conference and Future Cleantech Festival to Our Upcoming Report! Future Cleantech Architects is continuing the work started this year at Munich Security Conference on decarbonizing high-temperature industrial heat and at the Future Cleantech Festival during our session on “Electrifying High-Temperature Heat”. In 2022, energy-intensive industries consumed about 10% of Europe’s natural gas supply for their high-temperature processes. These industries – including steel, cement, and chemicals – are crucial for modern society today but also for tomorrow's net-zero future, and they face significant challenges in decarbonizing this high-temperature heat usage. While electrifying processes beyond 500°C or 1000°C is not a drop-in switch into currently fossil-fueled processes, several heating technologies are relatively mature and the remaining challenges have more to do with scaling-up engineering rather than scientific breakthroughs. This pathway is therefore technologically promising, but making the switch will require a substantial realignment of energy economics to incentivize the shift from natural gas to electricity to make the business case more compelling. Our upcoming technical report will comprehensively compare the different technology pathways available for decarbonizing high-temperature heat processes in industry. The analysis answers key questions, including which pathways are most promising, which limitations exist today, and which systemic changes – both inside and outside industrial plants – are required for a technoeconomically successful transition to clean high-temperature heat in industry. Stay tuned for more! #hightemperatureheat #electrification #futurecleantechfestival Peter Schniering Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Magnolia Tovar Leonie Brand Francesca Brunner Marlène Siméon Ingrid El Helou Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock
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ReFuelEU Aviation’s Targets: A Feasibility Assessment | Our Key Findings on Biojet Fuels Historically, liquid biofuel consumption in the EU has consistently outpaced production, with consumption being 18% higher than production in 2022. As demand for liquid biofuels in sectors beyond road transport increases, including a surge in biojet fuel demand over the next 20 years to comply with ReFuelEU Aviation’s targets, the EU will have to contend with added pressure on its liquid biofuel production capacity and a widening gap between supply and demand. Some of our key takeaways for biojet fuels are: ✅ Since the early 2000s, the evolving policy landscape in the EU has shifted focus from liquid biofuels for road transport to alternative renewable solutions, mainly electrification. This has led to slower growth in liquid biofuel consumption over the last 15 years. ✅ The focus on electrification in road transport, alongside rising demand for biojet fuel, opens up the potential for shifting liquid biofuel production to biojet fuel to help achieve ReFuelEU Aviation’s targets. Shifting 35% of today’s biodiesel capacity alone would be enough to meet the 2030 target, even if no additional biojet fuel production capacity is introduced. ✅ Beyond 2030, it is likely that biojet fuel demand will need to be met by diverting some of the current liquid biofuel production to biojet fuel, installing additional capacity, and relying on imports, with a heavier dependence on imports in the longer term. ✅ Cross-sectoral competition within the EU and global competition for liquid biofuels creates uncertainty regarding the amount of biojet fuels the EU will be able to produce and import to help meet its needs until 2050. Challenges will also arise from the stricter feedstock restrictions under RED III due to the limited availability of feedstocks such as forest residue, MSW, and waste oil. Learn more about our feasibility analysis of meeting ReFuelEU Aviation’s progressively increasing SAF targets by 2050 here: https://lnkd.in/db6vjZgH Peter Schniering Ingrid El Helou Magnolia Tovar Francesca Brunner Leonie Brand Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Marlène Siméon Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock #sustainableaviation #ReFuelEU
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Effective Climate Advocacy | Future Cleantech Architects at the 10% Club event in Rotterdam We are happy to share that our colleagues Magnolia Tovar and Martin Schifferings will be attending the climate edition of the 10% Club to talk about effective climate innovation, advocacy, and clean technologies to meet net zero by 2050. We look forward to attending the next edition of the 10% Club event, thank you for the invitation! Doneer Effectief Tien Procent Club Peter Schniering Leonie Brand Marlène Siméon Francesca Brunner Ingrid El Helou Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt
Over drie weken (dinsdag 15 oktober) organiseren Joris, Caramay, Ricardo, Axel en ik alweer de vierde editie van de Tien Procent Club Rotterdam. Dit keer over klimaatverandering, natuurlijk een populair onderwerp en een waar de meningen vaak uiteenlopen over de beste aanpak. We zijn erg blij met weer een divers palet aan boeiende sprekers: • Magnolia Tovar van Future Cleantech Architects, een denktank die wereldwijd invloed uitoefent op beleidsvorming. • Chris Julien, de ‘huisfilosoof’ van Extinction Rebellion, die zal spreken over de effectiviteit van (alledaags) activisme. • Gert van Vugt van Sustainer, die vertelt over duurzaamheid in de bouw en de uitdagingen van het starten van een duurzaamheidsstartup. • Jan Anne van Doneer Effectief, die inzicht geeft in de impact van structurele donaties en welke organisaties zij aanbevelen. Naast deze inspirerende talks, is er volop de gelegenheid om met elkaar in gesprek te gaan tijdens het eten (plantaardige paella van Pepaella) en de borrel achteraf. Noteer het in je agenda (15 oktober 18:00-21:00, Mathenesserdijk 418F Rotterdam) en boek je ticket (incl. eten) hieronder: https://lnkd.in/ecrAHs6q
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The Build-Up of Strategic Energy Storage | Future Cleantech Architects at the 29th Meeting of the Technology Executive Committee of United Nations Climate Change We are pleased to share that our Founder & CEO, Peter Schniering, and Director of Technologies and Impact, Magnolia Tovar, attended the 29th Meeting of the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) of United Nations Climate Change in Bonn last week. Together, they presented an input on the importance of planning now for storage for power and heat based on key results from our joint RD&D survey and our recent work on long duration and thermal energy storage. Some key aspects of our presentation were: ✅ Solar and wind energy will grow to be the backbone of global power systems. As these sources are intermittent, we require multiple flexibility tools to manage this and there is a global consensus on the relevance of storage as a key pillar of this flexibility, with energy storage emerging as the most urgent technology for emissions reduction in the results from our joint RD&D survey. ✅ Storage requirements increase non-linearly as renewable penetration increases on grids; we must therefore anticipate these needs and build long duration energy storage in tandem with renewable deployment. ✅ Flexibility needs range from hourly to seasonal timescales. No single technology is capable of addressing the whole spectrum; rather, a portfolio of storage technologies will be required to address all timescales. ✅ The focus on the power sector often means that heat is neglected, even though it accounts for half of global final energy use. For heat applications, thermal energy storage is an underestimated tool and can shift heat electrification from being a burden to being a flexible and valuable asset for power grids. Once again, a big thank you to the TEC for the opportunity to be part of this meeting! Bhava Dhungana Maia Tskhvaradze Ambrosio Yobánolo del Real Stig Svenningsen Thibyan Ibrahim Ariesta Ningrum Dietram Oppelt Leonie Brand Antoine Koen Marlène Siméon Ingrid El Helou Francesca Brunner Peter Ruschhaupt Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock
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Technical Report - ReFuelEU Aviation’s Targets: A Feasibility Assessment | Policy Recommendations ReFuelEU Aviation is a first-of-its-kind regulation aiming to stimulate demand for SAFs through progressively increasing targets. It intends to send market signals to fuel suppliers that SAFs are expected to play a long-term role in decarbonizing the sector and are fuels to be invested in, thereby increasing supply. While this regulation is a great first step, it is not enough to close the commercialization gap and create a viable business case for SAFs. Several synergetic policy measures must be implemented to help make ReFuelEU’s targets achievable by 2050. Read them below! You can find the complete technical report here: https://lnkd.in/db6vjZgH Peter Schniering Ingrid El Helou Magnolia Tovar Francesca Brunner Marlène Siméon Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Leonie Brand Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock #sustainableaviation #ReFuelEU
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Exploring the intersection between technology and policy for crucial innovations | Future Cleantech Architects at EAGxBerlin 2024 It was an honor for our team members Antoine Koen and Leonie Brand to be part of this 2-day conference organized by the Effective Altruism community in Berlin and to see such a strong interest in our work and focus topics. It was great meeting new people and catching up with supporters of our work. During the event, Antoine presented Future Cleantech Architects' mission at the intersection between technology and policy to accompany these crucial innovations and help them scale up as fast as possible. Antoine's presentation zoomed in on one of our focus sectors, cement and concrete, which served as the perfect example of the complexities of the challenge of decarbonizing heavy industry. He examined the diversity of solutions and how a holistic approach is needed to have the highest impact possible. Once again, a big thank you to the Effective Altruism community for the opportunity and flawless preparation and conduction of the event! Sarah Weiler Peter Schniering Martin Schifferings Magnolia Tovar Marlène Siméon Francesca Brunner Ingrid El Helou Peter Ruschhaupt Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock
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Exploring the implications of EU and US policy approaches to stimulate adoption of low-carbon fuels | Future Cleantech Architects at 2024 ETERC Conference We are happy to share that our Cleantech Analyst, Ingrid El Helou, was recently a panelist at the session "Exploring the implications of EU and US policy approaches to stimulate adoption of low-carbon fuels: focus on shipping and aviation" at the 2024 ETERC Conference organized by the European Transport & Energy Research Center (from the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis), in collaboration with Ghent University. This panel addressed current EU and US policies and their potential to decarbonize aviation and shipping. The discussion centered on the efficacy of current policies in stimulating the uptake of low-carbon fuels and what policies are still needed to improve scale-up and reduce risks along the way. FCA's main key takeaways from the panel discussion are: ✅ ReFuelEU Aviation is a SAFs uptake mandate that provides long-term visibility to 2050 and increases certainty in the future demand for SAFs in the EU. However, accelerated funding and additional investment schemes, such as for synthetic jet fuels (e-fuels), are needed to help facilitate the successful commercialization of such projects and the scale-up in domestic SAF production. ✅ Flexibility mechanisms such as Book and Claim could help achieve ReFuelEU Aviation’s targets. However, an EU framework must be developed to ensure that such schemes do not override, but are instead complementary to domestic SAF development, thus ensuring industrial resilience within the EU. A big thank you to the moderator Martina Wikström, Ph.D (UC Davis), the panelists Joe Bettles (Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping), Sebastian Hirsz (bp), Sarah Nicholas (Shell), and Patrizia Reisinger (Neste), and speakers Lorenzo Casullo (Ricardo Policy & Climate Change), Pierpaolo Cazzola (UC Davis ETERC), and Carlos Ruiz (International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)) for the insightful discussion! In line with the discussion, our new technical report on ReFuelEU Aviation's Targets assesses the feasibility of meeting ReFuelEU Aviation’s progressively increasing SAF targets by 2050. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/db6vjZgH Peter Schniering Marlène Siméon Magnolia Tovar Leonie Brand Francesca Brunner Martin Schifferings Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Juliane Harlfinger
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Technical Report - ReFuelEU Aviation’s Targets: A Feasibility Assessment | Our Technical Recommendations While it seems feasible that the EU will be able to meet its 2030 aviation targets, mostly through biofuels, consideration must be given to meeting its later targets until 2050. Shortfalls in the supply of biofuels and shortages in resources, such as renewable electricity and green hydrogen, to produce synthetic jet fuels become more apparent past 2030. The Union must start planning and developing a clear strategy from now on how to overcome these later-stage shortfalls and meet ReFuelEU Aviation’s targets. Consideration must be given to the aviation sector’s needs across the whole value chain, accounting for cross-sectoral competition for scarce resources. Read our technical recommendations below! You can find the complete technical report here: https://lnkd.in/db6vjZgH Peter Schniering Ingrid El Helou Magnolia Tovar Francesca Brunner Marlène Siméon Leonie Brand Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock #sustainableaviation #ReFuelEU
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Event Alert | New Live Podcast Date with n-tv Announced for Berlin Good news! We are teaming up with Clara Pfeffer and Christian Herrmann from ntvNachrichten's Klima-Labor for the first live podcast in Berlin about the future of climate action in Germany. We will have our factsheets and latest reports on display during the live podcast recording with an audience in Berlin's Audio Alliance location on November 7th. Stay tuned for more information! Peter Schniering Ingrid El Helou Magnolia Tovar Francesca Brunner Marlène Siméon Leonie Brand Antoine Koen Peter Ruschhaupt Martin Schifferings Juliane Harlfinger Christina Martelock