Cleantech for Europe

Trade pressures play on Europe’s energy transition The geopolitical environment weighs on every area of the economy. As discussions over trade wars, competitiveness and industrial strategy, Europe’s efforts to decarbonise face obstacles from all sides

Link to the full episode and article by @foresight-ce.bsky.social: foresightmedia.com/story/sVXg4i...

👉For a deeper analysis of how to secure Europe’s clean industrial competitiveness in this era of hyper-competitive and hyper-transactional geopolitics, read our latest trade report: www.cleantechforeurope.com/report-2024-...

🛡️We need to be more assertive in scaling domestic cleantech manufacturing. This requires sending strong demand signals to European cleantech producers by introducing robust non-price criteria, such as resilience as well as minimum EU content requirements, in public funding and procurement.

🎙️As highlighted by our Senior Policy Officer in the latest episode of @foresight-ce.bsky.social, Europe’s increasing imports of Chinese clean technologies undercut our domestic innovators who are scaling their technologies – eroding our industrial competitiveness, innovative capacity, and security.

⚠️However, China’s production overcapacity and state-sponsored export-led model is putting Europe’s local industries at risk.

🚀If we want to reach net zero while fostering industrial competitiveness and energy security, we have to scale homegrown cleantech solutions and deploy them widely.

🎧Tuned In: Trade pressures play on Europe’s energy transition🎧

This political summer is all about trade – and for Europe’s energy transition, the bloc’s future trade doctrine will be crucial. 🧵

Data shows the $750bn EU-US energy deal is out of touch with reality The agreement flies in the face of Europe’s climate goals and energy realities

Read the full article: www.sustainableviews.com/data-shows-t...

Discover Cleantech for Europe’s strategy to restore industrial competitiveness: www.cleantechforeurope.com/report-2024-...

In our latest trade report, we set out a concrete strategy to boost European competitiveness:

🔹Acknowledge Reality – Enforce reciprocity and level the playing field
🔹Accelerate Action – Upgrade and accelerate policy tools
🔹Integrate Strategically – Break silos and integrate policy

Rather than increasing its dependence on volatile external actors, what Europe needs to do now is invest in its next generation of clean industrial leaders by scaling up local cleantech production.🔼

📣As highlighted by our ED Jules Besnainou in
@financialtimes.com's Sustainable Views, this deal marks a commitment to unrealistic numbers. Europe risks locking itself into a future fueled by fossil fuels and incapacity to compete globally due to a lack of strong local industries.

⚡On energy, the negotiating parties agreed that European companies will buy a yearly $250 billion worth of US oil, natural gas and nuclear technologies for the next three years, which in essence means that the EU will quadruple its fossil fuel imports.

🗞️In the Press: Data shows the $750bn EU-US energy deal is out of touch with reality🗞️

Following the recent announcement of an EU-US trade deal, with an upcoming 15% of tariffs on EU products, the question as to what Europe’s future trade doctrine will look like is looming. 🧵

Facing fierce competition from the US and China, Europe now needs to double down and keep putting in place a strategic set of policies aimed at building competitiveness. This is a make or break moment for Europe’s clean industrial leadership – the time to act is now.⏰

In Q2 2025, Brussels rolled out several measures supporting cleantech:
🏛️@eib.org CleantechEU Guarantee Scheme
🛡️Clean Industrial State Aid Framework (CISAF)
💼Startup and Scaleup Strategy

🚀Yet with the Clean Industrial Deal taking shape, EU cleantech is increasingly viewed as a stable and strategic opportunity, highlighting the importance of strong political signals to leverage investment opportunities.

🔭Looking ahead, Europe faces macroeconomic uncertainty, volatile interest rates, and new trade barriers – dampening investor confidence and prompting a 'wait and see' approach.

📊In Q2 2025, €2.5 billion were invested in cleantech venture and growth in Europe – marking the best quarter of amount invested since Q1 2024. The average deal size doubled, showing bigger deals coming through. However, deal volume declined sharply, hitting a 7-year low.

Cleantech Q2 Briefing 2025 Read our latest briefing to learn more about the innovation and investment trends in EU cleantech, and the latest policies that will impact them.

⏰Time for action – Europe’s make or break moment in clean industrial leadership: our latest Quarterly Briefing⏰

A thread unpacking key insights from our 2025 Q2 Briefing 🧵

🔗Full briefing: cleantechforeurope.webflow.io/publications...

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How can the next EU budget support climate, nature & a resilient economy?

Join @transenv.bsky.social,@wwf.eu & @cleantechforeu.bsky.social for a debate on how a reformed MFF can fund the green transition, energy security & industrial transformation.

🗓️ 10 Apr

Details 👉 wwf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🛡️ With new security challenges, EU public funding is shifting to defense (REARM, SAFE).

That makes unlocking private capital for cleantech scale-up even more urgent. We need de-risking tools & EU/EIB support now.

As Commissioner Albuquerque put it: "We no longer have the luxury of time." ⏳

🇪🇺 That’s why the EU prioritizing equity, venture, & growth capital in the Savings & Investments Union is so crucial.

Making cleantech investment more attractive for insurers, banks & pension funds—while pooling EU citizens' savings—can help unlock private capital.

💶 The issue isn’t money—Europe has €37 TRILLION of wealth.

The challenge? Mobilizing capital to seize opportunities.
More risk-taking, patient capital is essential to finance cleantech through its scale-up journey. #InvestEU

🏭 Europe has world-class cleantech innovators, but a capital gap threatens to push them elsewhere.

To stay competitive & decarbonize industry, we need much larger pools of venture & growth equity—and debt providers willing to take risks & back scale-ups.

📢 Can the Savings & Investments Union unlock the much-needed capital for cleantech?

Following the Clean Industrial Deal, the @ec.europa.eu has reached another milestone with today’s Savings & Investments Union—announced alongside the €150bn SAFE loan instrument. What does it mean for cleantech? 🧵👇

CCMI experts hearing on strengthening Europe’s manufacturing base in cleantech welcomed @strategiceu.bsky.social @bruegel.bsky.social @e3g.bsky.social @cleantechforeu.bsky.social & DG GROW

They provided valuable inputs on how to make Europe a clean tech powerhouse⚙️💡

More info➡️europa.eu/!gJ3HdJ

A business plan for a low-carbon, competitive EU The European Commission has presented its Clean Industry Pact to support companies in the race to develop clean technologies. It has announced that it is putting €100 billion on the table initially, i...

Cleantech for Europe Director Victor Van Hoorn responds to the @ec.europa.eu's Clean Industrial Deal (CID): "[The CID] instils a significant dose of pragmatism into the Green Deal, by recognising that private companies will have to do it and implement it to transform our economy."

Made in the EU: Europe insists it can decarbonise and reindustrialise The EU launches its Clean Industrial Deal and affordable energy action plan aimed at boosting clean tech and competitiveness At a glanceThe European Commission hopes its Clean Industrial Deal will mak...

Cleantech for Europe Director Victor Van Hoorn reacts to the @ec.europa.eu's Clean Industrial Deal in @financialtimes.com: “a strong investment signal for European cleantech" that "gives a demand boost and unlocks de-risking tools to mobilise private capital"

🏦 Greater use of the EU Innovation Fund & the creation of an Industrial Decarbonisation Bank to support the transition.

🎯 Commitment to mobilizing private capital

🏗️ The upcoming Savings & Investment Union will focus on financing decarbonization & cleantech growth.