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The key that unlocks Cleantech financing in Europe

October 15, 2024
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The key that unlocks Cleantech financing in Europe
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When fast-growing startups lack access to government-backed pools of capital at home, they leave. Already, firms are relocating from Europe to the US, taking private capital, talent, and future world-leading technologies with them. To reverse this trend, the EU must unlock large volumes of capital to support research and development in the green technologies of the future.

But with the world teetering on the brink of recession, and EU member states under huge financial pressure, this capital needs to be obtained without tapping current revenue or funding streams. Fortunately, a single creative policy change could unlock a substantial chunk of capital, without increasing fiscal spending. The key is to be found in the EU’s Emissions Trading System.

Launched in 2005, the EU’s ETS functions as a cap-and-trade system that divides the total target volume of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions into allowances, which are then allocated to firms within the ETS territory. A company that exceeds its allocated emissions allowances must purchase additional ones, either from a company with allowances to spare or in public auctions.

In 2022, the EU ETS generated €38.8 billion in auction revenues. Most revenues are returned to member states, which are supposed to spend the money mostly on climate- and energy-related priorities. But even when auction revenues are channeled toward much-needed cleantech and green-infrastructure projects (which is not always the case), they remain inadequate to fund the level of investment needed today.

This will change: ETS revenues are set to increase significantly over the next decade, as the carbon price rises. But financing cleantech cannot wait. That is why some investors and policymakers, including European Parliament member Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, have called for the EU to borrow against future ETS revenues, thereby generating more capital for green investment today.

A similar approach is already being deployed elsewhere. Japan announced last February that it plans to issue ¥20 trillion ($137 billion) in climate-transition bonds over the coming decade to support green investment, using future revenue from its own ETS and its fossil-fuel levy to service the debt. The announcement was welcomed by markets, industry, and climate innovators alike.

To be sure, implementing such a scheme in Europe would be more complicated, as it would require the EU to assume collective debt on behalf of member states. But this would not be nearly as daunting a political hurdle as one might think, because the ETS is already an EU-level scheme. It should thus be feasible to get European leaders to approve collective borrowing against future ETS revenues, especially given the obvious and far-reaching benefits of giving cleantech startups greater access to capital.

Borrowing against future ETS revenues would enable the EU to reduce emissions in the medium term and invest in the vital infrastructure and transformative technologies that are needed to meet its climate goals. European policymakers owe it to cleantech innovators – and to European citizens – to give this policy a chance.

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