The EU plans to introduce mandatory sustainability criteria for all projects and to end support for new natural gas and oil projects.

The Council of the European Union has approved a regulation creating the €17.5bn Just Transition Fund (JTF).

The EU ETS represents one of the world’s largest CO2 markets. It caps emissions from about 10,000 power sector, industrial and aviation installations from all EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

20% of the funds should be directed to Poland, which accounts for over half of the EU's coal sector employees, followed by Germany (13%) and Romania (11%), provided the coal mining regions submit climate-friendly plans

Foratom suggest the report can be a reference for policymakers when preparing national or regional low-carbon energy plans in the perspective of the EU Green Deal, that incorporates EUR1000 billion (USD1221 billion) of public and private investments planned to 2027.

The EU has made green and digital the two pillars of its recovery plan, aiming to strengthen its leadership in the global fight against climate change, boost innovation and reduce dependence on imports of critical materials.

On 8 July last year, the European Commission adopted the EU Hydrogen Strategy, which sets out how hydrogen can support the decarbonisation of industry, transport, power generation and buildings.

which enshrines the EU's commitment to reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and the intermediate target of reducing net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55% by 2030,

Nuclear energy is the largest (26.7% in 2019) single source of low-carbon energy in the EU, ahead of hydro (12.3%), wind (13.3%), solar (4.4%) and other (0.5%).

There are currently a lot of debates going on about the potential of hydrogen. The question arises as to what role hydrogen will play in the energy transition. In this article you can find out which political regulations have already been made and which changes are just around the corner.