The CCCE just launched a pledge for companies committing to reduce their carbon emissions and receive support to do so

In June 2022, the Covenant of Companies for Climate and Energy (CCCE) launched its first call for Technical Assistance. If you are a European company or business-support organisation and you also want to receive technical assistance, don't miss our next call in the Spring of 2023!

Six country-specific Guides focusing on Croatia, Finland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Poland are available on the CCCE website and provide an overview of the financial support schemes, the financing tools for research and innovation and available capacity building materials at EU level.

In the context of the 2022 SME Assembly in Prague, Georg Houben, Policy Officer at the European Commission, made a presentation of the European Covenant of Companies for Climate and Energy.

The Covenant of Companies was officially presented on 29 November in Prague, Czech Republic, during a session entitled ‘’No Net Zero without SMEs: launching practical support for energy transition’’.

From 6-20 November, leaders and representatives from all over the world met in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, to take part at COP27 and to discuss the next actions towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement.

The EU is facing unprecedented challenges in our economy and energy supply. The RePowerEU plan is a response to the global energy market disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Launched in May 2022, the plan aims to save and produce clean energy and diversify EU energy supplies.

With energy bills are rising all over Europe, companies are putting in place measures to reduce their ecological footprint. This is what Looming, an eco-friendly hostel located in Tartu, Estonia, has been doing for quite a while.

On 24 February 2022, we all woke up to a changed world. A darker world, where war on the continent of Europe had once again been waged. The fallout of Russia’s unjustified war has been felt across the globe.