Decarbonisation
Decarbonisation & Public Funding: What’s in it for the Glass Industry? Bastian Meinig, Dominique Buoncuore, Eike Gansäuer and Jan Lucas (Public Funding Experts for Decarbonisation in Düsseldorf) discuss how funding can play a crucial role for the glass industry on the pathway to carbon neutrality.
� Fig 1. Funding for glass industry in Europe (blue – tax refunds, green – direct
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ybrid Furnace of the Future”: That was the title of an ambitious project led by 19 glass companies, supported by the European Container Glass Federation, which aimed at cutting the CO2-emission by up to 60%. Despite being a possible step to secure the future of the European glass industry in a climate-neutral Europe, this promise was not attractive enough to be selected
for funding in the European Innovation Fund of the European Commission. So, the question remains if and how funding can become a vital factor for the glass industry´s efforts to decarbonise its production processes. In the recent past, European governments have publicly announced their wish to support industries in their necessary transformation path to reduce
their carbon footprint. This seems logical: decarbonising is associated with immense capital expenditures and a regulatory package, leading to increasing operating costs (both staff and energy related). In this context, subsidies for rising costs are without alternative to secure the international competitiveness of glass Continued>>
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