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Ben Materials u Policy and future orientations
and Commiission priorities

   
  
 

Commission priorities 2015-19

1. Jobs, Growth and Investment
- circular economy and green growth

2. Digital Single Market

3. Energy Union
- transition to a low-carbon economy

(renewables, electricity market, mobility...)

4. Internal Market
- unlock the full potential of the single market
- a renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy

6. Trade policy to harness globalisation
- economic diplomacy
- raw materials chapters in FTAs

9. A stronger global actor
- international cooperation
and development

   
 
 
  
   

 
  
   
    
 

 
    
 
  
  
  
 
  

Raw Materials Initia
EU policy
- CRM list

    
 

EIP on Raw Material
Strategic Implementatio

       
 
  
 

H2020-Raw Materials

  

Ensure
level playing field
in access to resource
in third countries

   
   
 

  

Foster
sustainable supply
from European
sources

Raw
Materials

Raw Materials Initiative
« Integrated strategy to tackle challenges related to access to raw materials
« Fair and sustainable supply of raw materials
« Resource efficiency and recycling
« European Innovation Partnership (EIP)
« Strategic Implementation Plan of the EIP

Renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy (2017)

« Investing in smart, innovative, sustainable industry

« Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction
« Strategic Action Plan for Batteries

« Energy-intensive Industries under the Paris Agreement

Latest EU Critical Raw Materials Assessment: 2017

Circular Economy Action Plan

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« Parties of the Paris Agreement to present long-term low
greenhouse gas emission development strategies by 2020

« In October 2017 the European Parliament also invited the
Commission "to prepare by COP24 a mid-century zero emissions
strategy for the EU"

« In March 2018, European Council invited the Commission "to
present by the first quarter of 2019 a proposal for a Strategy for
long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction".

« Regulation on Governance of the Energy Union calls on the
Commission to present an EU long-term strategy by April 2019,
including pathways that achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050
and negative emissions thereafter

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° Long-term strategy for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050

« "A European long-term strategic vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive
and climate neutral economy”

- The urgency to protect the planet
- A European vision

- Pathways for the transition to a
net-zero greenhouse gas
emissions economy and strategic
priorities

- Investing in a sustainable society

- a European enabling framework
for the long-term transition

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«- Open markets, a globalised world and multilateralism are a
precondition to benefit from this transition domestically and globally

« The EU's long-term strategy cannot be pursued in isolation. Role of
energy and climate diplomacy but also other political dialogues,
security and development cooperation

« EU's position will change, prepare for geopolitical and geo-economic
shifts with new and changed dependencies

« Trade policy to promote uptake new technologies while defending our
right to fair access to markets and critical raw materials

« EU must take all necessary measures to safeguard and boost its own
prospects for economic and social development

« As the world's largest single market, EU's standards on products affect
global markets, putting European companies at the forefront

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Competitive Industry

« Competitive resource-efficient industry and circular economy,
increased recovery and recycling of raw materials (including critical
materials), new materials and business concepts

« Electrification, energy efficiency, hydrogen, biomass and renewable
synthetic gas to reduce energy emissions in the production of
industrial goods

« Process-related reductions more difficult. Biomass and hydrogen
can reduce certain emissions (steel production, some chemicals),
others will require CO2 to be captured and stored or used

« Inthe next 10 to 15 years, technologies that are already known
will need to demonstrate that they can work at scale

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Commission In-depth Analysis

°. Section on raw material supply

- OECD estimate: global material use
increase from 79 Gt in 2011 to 167 Gtin
2060

- Cutting emissions in parts of the economic
chain may cause new issues: heavy metal
pollution, habitat destruction, resource
depletion (International Resource Panel
assessment)

- Many critical raw materials in countries
with poor governance and environmental
standards

- Low-carbon transition: circular economy
incl. secondary raw material use

- Free trade agreements now include raw
materials chapter

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20 2060
Metals 8cGt 206Gt

Materials use increase

 

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Biomass 20Gt 376Gt
207 206 Non-metallic
r minerals 37Gt 8 6 G t
Zn. ° Construction materials
{ 3 2 Y use stabilises in China
Share of sand, gravel and after 2025

Fossil crushed rock in total
u hr

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- 2011 2025 2060
2017

(Source: OECD)

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« EU Raw Materials Challenges
- Security of supply

- Sourcing
- Substitution
- Sustainability

- Global competitiveness (level playing
field)

- Growing demand: electric mobility,
digitalisation, wind turbines, etc.

«- Circular Economy Opportunities

   

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