Joint Statement on the Commission proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act

A joint statement from research organisations, think tanks, and civil society arguing that the European Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act proposal lacks the ambition needed to create effective lead markets for low-carbon materials. The signatories call for progressive increases in public procurement quotas, the inclusion of private procurement, and robust definitions of 'low-carbon' to avoid stranding committed supply and to provide the investment certainty required for large-scale decarbonisation.

• The proposed public procurement quotas for low-carbon materials—25% for steel, 25% for aluminium, and 5% for concrete—are considered insufficient, representing only 1.6% of EU demand for steel and 1.5% for concrete.
• There is a significant gap between committed low-carbon steel production capacity (29.7 million tonnes per year by 2030) and the demand generated by the current procurement mandate (approximately 2.1 million tonnes).
• Innovation Fund awards have been granted to 17 cement plants to use carbon capture and storage, which is expected to produce over 25 million tonnes of annual low-carbon cement by 2032.
• The signatories argue that fixed quotas are ineffective because they do not reflect the growth required for EU emission targets; they recommend that quotas increase progressively and be extended to include private procurement to avoid stranding committed supply.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (2026). Joint Statement on the Commission proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/27043838/EPICO-and-CATF-Joint-Statement-on-the-Commission-proposal-for-the-Industrial-Accelerator-Act.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Joint Statement on the Commission proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act. 2026. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/27043838/EPICO-and-CATF-Joint-Statement-on-the-Commission-proposal-for-the-Industrial-Accelerator-Act.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{cleanairtaskforce2026joint, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Joint Statement on the Commission proposal for the Industrial Accelerator Act}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2026}, month = apr, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/27043838/EPICO-and-CATF-Joint-Statement-on-the-Commission-proposal-for-the-Industrial-Accelerator-Act.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }