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Overview
Lobbying Costs
235,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Energy Transitions Commission (ETC)
EU Transparency Register
789695437661-86 First registered on 21 Mar 2020
Goals / Remit
The goal of the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) is to accelerate change towards low-carbon energy systems that enable robust economic development and limit the rise in global temperature to well below 2°C and as close as possible to 1.5°C.
We bring together a global coalition of over 40 leading executives from across the energy landscape (energy companies, energy-intensive industries, equipment providers, investors, environmental NGOs and academics). Our mission is to define how to most effectively transition to net-zero carbon energy systems that also enable economic prosperity, and how to accelerate the required action from public and private decision-makers. The ETC is co-chaired by Lord Adair Turner and Dr. Ajay Mathur. Its secretariat is hosted by SYSTEMIQ.
The ETC positions itself as a unique voice in the global and regional climate/energy debates (due to the diversity of its membership), a thought-partner for policymakers, private sector players and civil society stakeholders, and a convener of action-oriented high-level discussions, able to bring around the same table a varied range of stakeholders to orchestrate in-depth, analytically-robust debates on specific aspects of the transition that can truly inform and build support for ambitious actions. We aim to build a trusted fact-base, anchored into high-quality research as well as broad consultation with public and private stakeholders, on the “tough-to-crack” issues of the energy transition, and define feasible transition pathways to inform policy and investment choices across countries and sectors.
In 2017, the ETC published Better Energy, Greater Prosperity, a report that outlines four strategies to cut carbon emissions by half by 2040. In 2018, the ETC published Mission Possible, the first global report outlining how to reach net-zero carbon emissions in the harder-to-abate sectors of the economy – heavy industry and heavy-duty transport – by mid-century. Building on these global reports, in 2019 the ETC worked to informing policymaking across several regions, including in China where it has published a ground-breaking report on China 2050: A Fully Developed Rich Zero-Carbon Economy.
In 2020, the Energy Transitions Commission is refocusing its activities on transforming insights into impact by pursuing 4 major objectives:
1. Making the ETC messages mainstream to build consensus on the technical and economic feasibility of the transition to net-zero carbon energy and industrial systems by 2050-2060, and on how to achieve this goal;
2. Catalysing action from businesses and finance players to decarbonise the harder-to-abate sectors of the economy through the Mission Possible Platform, a partnership between the ETC and the World Economic Forum (see below);
3. Informing the public debate in 5 major regions (China, India, Europe, US and Australia); and,
4. Defining realistic pathways to zero-carbon energy systems focusing on quadrupling power generation, achieving a ten-fold increase in hydrogen and developing the bioeconomy in a truly sustainable way.Main EU files targeted
The ETC’s activities are focused on informing the public debate at a regional level within the EU.
In 2019, the ETC and the IT50 initiative led by ECF started orchestrating a productive dialogue between EU institutions and leading European industry voices on policy interventions that could drive a deep decarbonization of the economy, with a particular focus on the European industry strategy required to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in heavy industry and heavy-duty transport.
2020 offers an important opportunity to inform and inspire the EU Commission, Parliament and Council as they define their agenda for the next 5 years, decide on a the EU’s decarbonisation targets, and develop the European Green New Deal. The ETC is uniquely able to provide an analytically robust, ambitious, industry-backed vision of pathways to net-zero emissions and to bridge the debate between academic/NGO experts, industry representatives and policymakers. We will aim to intervene in a highly targeted way, by (i) engaging the EU Commission, Parliament and Council on the coherent set of recommendations arising from our work to date and (ii) focusing on 4-5 areas of policymaking on which additional thinking and exchanges would help build support for short-term policy changes.
The ETC holds technical knowledge highly relevant to the Commission’s broad Green Deal agenda, including Financing the Sustainable Transition, the Commission’s contribution to COP26, Decarbonizing energy, Sustainable Production and Consumption and Sustainable and Smart Mobility, Europe’s Industrial Strategy, Research and Innovation, and WTO Reform.
Specifically on COP26, the ETC will collaborate with the UK and Italian governments, the UNFCCC and other key stakeholders ahead of COP26 to help shape the global, sectoral and regional agendas by:
1. Providing a consolidated vision of how to reach net-zero emissions, with a particular focus on what steps should be taken in the 2020s and how to address transitional issues, which can inform the strengthening of the NDCs
2. Informing the revision of the NDCs in major regions where the ETC operates (chiefly China, India and the EU)
3. Supporting 3-4 sectoral announcements by coalitions of frontrunning governments and businesses in the harder-to-abate sectors of the economy, building on the work of the Mission Possible Platform
Specifically on the industry engagement, the ETC aims to accelerate the transition to net-zero across multiple harder-to-abate sectors of the economy, by inspiring, informing or seeding new industry initiatives, involving businesses and finance players. We are doing this through our partnership with the World Economic Forum – the Mission Possible Platform (MPP) – which was launched at the UNSG Climate Action Summit in September 2019. The MPP provides an umbrella to seven sectoral initiatives (for trucking, shipping, aviation, steel, aluminium, chemicals and cement), each one bringing together a leading group of corporate leaders from the respective value chains committed to accelerate progress towards net-zero emissions. The ETC is currently leading work related to the Steel, Aviation and Shipping initiatives. These initiatives are global in scope but are active at the regional policy level, particularly in the context of the European Green Deal.Address
Head Office
SYSTEMIQ, 5th Floor
69 Carter Lane
London EC4V 5EQ
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 50% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The Energy Transitions Commission is also likely to work in partnership with its Commissioners’ organisations, which are represented in Brussels and are registered separately on the EU Transparency Register. These joint operations would be organised on an ad-hoc basis, for a specific meeting or event.
An up-to-date list of ETC Commissioners can be found on our website: http://www.energy-transitions.org/who-we-arePerson in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
ETC Commissioners are affiliated with sponsoring and non-sponsoring organizations.
Regardless of funding, every Commissioner has an equal voice and participation in the Energy Transitions Commission. An up-to-date list of ETC Commissioners – and of the supporting organizations with which they are affiliated – can be found on our
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
235,000€
Other financial info
The secretariat of the Energy Transitions Commission is run by SYSTEMIQ Ltd. It is funded by financial contributions from its sponsoring organizations.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Recent EU related activities have included a series of European Round Tables in 2019, bringing together representatives from the EU Commission, EU Parliament, industry leaders and civil society, on topics relevant to industry decarbonization – Finance, Materials Efficiency, Zero-carbon demand signals and consolidation, Infrastructure. This positions us well to continue to provide input to the European Commission as it develops the EU’s Green New Deal in 2020.
Going forward EU activities will be tailored to the EC’s work program, and will include:
• Orchestrating high-level exchanges between senior experts, industry representatives and policymakers focused on identifying and building consensus for policy changes – targeted at the intersections of the European Commissions work plan and ETC work programme;
• Synthesizing insights and recommendations into short, digestible briefing papers aimed at non-technical audiences;
• Exchanging with relevant stakeholders at different levels of the Commission, Parliament and Council – either bilaterally or with small delegations of representatives from a diversity of European ETC members, and the ETC-WEF Mission Possible Platform;
• Supporting the articulation of joint policy asks from cross-value chain industry players in the harder to abate sectors of the economy, building on the work of the Mission Possible Platform.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
7 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 25 Apr 2022 Location Brussels Subject Ensuring European energy security while delivering the energy transition. Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Sep 2021 Location Video Conferencing Subject To share their latest reports: - Making Clean Electrification Possible: 30 years to electrify the global economy; - Making the Hydrogen Economy Possible: Accelerating clean hydrogen in an electrified economy. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member)
- Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Dec 2020 Location Brussels - video conference Subject Making Mission Possible report Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Nov 2020 Location Conference call Subject Introductury meeting Clean Skies Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Walter Goetz (Cabinet member)
- Gaëlle Michelier (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Sep 2020 Location virtual Subject Energy and Economic Recovery Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni Portfolio Economy Attending - Alienor Margerit (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Sep 2020 Location Brussels Subject Steel sector decarbonisation DG Climate Action Attending - Mauro Raffaele Petriccione (Director-General)
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Date 24 Jun 2020 Location Virtual meeting Subject Green recovery and energy transition DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)