Efforts to boost European manufacturing of clean technologies and the development of skills in those sectors – such as renewables and heat pumps – are necessary to lift bottlenecks in the Fit-for-55 package implementation phase and accelerate the transition towards climate neutrality. However, the European Commission is missing on big pieces of the puzzle: both achieving the green transition and building up a resilient EU economy cannot happen without a strong governance framework, complying with international rules, and a holistic approach between climate-biodiversity-pollution-resources.

An important range of strategies are left on the side, whereas they should be at the core of EU industrial policy to ensure strategic independence, build resilience and bring together wider EU Green Deal objectives: demand-side reduction measures and sufficiency-based policies, reuse and recycling of materials and products, substitution of critical raw materials and material/energy efficiency.

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