Director Public Policy at GRS Service | Producer Responsibility | Circular Economy | Sustainability
🇨🇳🐼 “The PANDA in the room” …very insightful discussion at #IFCleantech moderated by Kurt Vandenberghe and featuring the EU battery sector represented by Barbara THIERART-PERRIN and Sonia Gilde S. Rathscheck 👇 💡The discussion keeps coming back to the elephant in the room, cheap innovative cleantech products from China, so really the “panda” in the room 💡Overcapacity adds to the pressure from China on the EU, cheap products are great for enabling the green transition, but at a disastrous price to Europe 💡How can Europe and the EU address this, China is 2 decades ahead, industry needs funding to innovate and scale up, from a Green Deal to an Industrial Deal 💡Policy makers need to create a market for domestic products - and when talking about innovation, we need not only innovative products, but also innovative policies 💡Plus EC work on transition pathways presented by Kerstin Jorna from DG GROW, highlighting the importance of materials for the EU cleantech industry …and finally, it’s all about: 1️⃣ The 3 “S” -Speed -Scale -Sustainability 2️⃣ FAIR vs. CHEAP
