SAVE THE DATE On 26th of October 2020, the European Chemical Regions Network - ECRN organises the online conference "Building the Sustainable Chemical Industry of Tomorrow: Regional Response to common European Challenges".   How to accelerate the green...

The New EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability adopted on the 14th of October 2020 is a first concrete step towards the zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment announced in the European Green Deal. The Strategy aims to...

Over the past fifty years, the global use of plastics has increased twentyfold and is still growing. It is expected to reach up to 1.2 billion tonnes annually by 2050. At the same time, plastic waste is increasingly...

Demand for raw materials is increasing exponentially and there is a risk of resource depletion. In the last 100 years, the world's population has started using 34 times more materials, 27 times more minerals, 12 times more fossil...

As recognised by the EU Hydrogen Strategy, renewable hydrogen is a key component for success in Europe’s energy transition. Hydrogen has various applications across industries and economic sectors and it can be used as a feedstock, fuel, or...

  On 7 July 2020, the European Alliance against Coronavirus organized a webinar dedicated to the Chemical Industrial Modernization S3P partnership to explore solutions and experiences to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 crisis in the chemical sector....

On May 27 the European Commission presented a revamped EU long-term budget worth €1.3 trillion and a €750 billion EU recovery programme to push the European economy out of the crisis. The total spending would bring the EU...

The 2020 Call for proposals of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking BBI JU is now open until 3 September 2020, 17:00 CET. With a budget of €102 million, the initiative will finance projects working on faster development of new...

The European Committee of the Regions' ENVE Commission launches a written stakeholders' consultation aimed at feeding into the preparation of its upcoming opinion on the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) which was published on the 11th of...

A new global study from BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds out that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry if policies are put in place to help scale up technology, and...