LIFE Platform Meeting on Climate Change Mitigation in Energy Intensive Industries in Utrecht (Netherlands)

The LIFE Platform Meeting on Climate Change Mitigation in Energy Intensive Industries held in Utrecht, Netherlands on 26-27 September 2018 brought together beneficiaries of the LIFE Programme and other EU funding mechanisms, policy makers and stakeholders with the aim to discuss how Energy Intensive Industries (EII) can contribute to implementing the European Union’s roadmap to decarbonisation.

The main objective of the meeting was to promote the exchange of good practices and to facilitate networking and synergies among LIFE and other EU projects such as H2020 related to energy intensive industries. The sectors primarily covered in this meeting were: glass, ceramics, cement, steel and other metals.

The meeting included three main parts:

• Plenary sessions on the policy context, industry commitments, technological solutions,
• Working groups focusing on key issues of shared concern and possible synergies among the participating projects,
• Visit to relevant projects near the platform meeting location.

LIFE CleanOx project beneficiary was invited to participate in the platform meeting due to its contribution to making European industry more climate-friendly and less energy-consuming.

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