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Institute for Climate Economics

I4CE

The Institute for Climate Economics is a non-profit research organization providing independent climate policy analysis.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Gijs Schilthuis (Director Agriculture and Rural Development)

13 Jan 2026 · Presentation of experiences from the French low carbon label (agriculture and forestry)

Meeting with Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

13 Jan 2026 · Carbon farming and certification framework

Meeting with Vicky Pollard (Head of Unit Climate Action)

19 Nov 2025 · discussion about how I4CE research can support advancing the topics related to investment for the climate transition at the European level next year

Meeting with Astrid Dentler (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

19 Nov 2025 · Climate resilience and adaptation

Meeting with Mette Koefoed Quinn (Head of Unit Climate Action)

19 Nov 2025 · International credits

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views climate policy

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Sept 2025 · Climat Policy

Response to European climate resilience and risk management law

27 Aug 2025

The upcoming EU Adaptation Plan represents a unique opportunity to embed resilience at the heart of European policy and investment choices. Based on I4CEs analysis, we recommend five priorities for the Commission and Member States. 1. Establish multi-year investment programmes for adaptation. The EU should establish a European-level programme of adaptation investments and encourage each Member State to develop national programmes aligned with a common framework. Headline figures alone will not suffice: policy must allow for granularity, nuance, and explicit choices between competing priorities. 2. Make adaptation an explicit objective of European structural policies. Certain structural policies, such as the Common Agricultural Policy, still fail to integrate adaptation systematically. The European Court of Auditors has highlighted this weakness. The revised plan should make resilience an explicit objective guiding all long-life investments supported by European funds. Building on the European Investment Banks experience, the principle of resilience by design should be generalized across cohesion policy, infrastructure, and other EU-supported programmes. 3. Equip actors with robust tools and assistance. Adaptation is not only a matter of funding but also of capacity. Programme managers and project promoters need practical toolsmethods, standards, and benchmarksto translate future climate risks into operational requirements in each sector. These tools must be accompanied by clear accountability processes and genuine audit capabilities. The EU should also expand technical assistance, building on models such as JASPERS, to help project leaders integrate climate risks into design and execution. Extending the EU Adaptation Mission beyond 2027 would be a valuable step in this direction. 4. Organize a bottom-up approach to adaptation costs. Current reporting on adaptation finance is fragmented and often incomparable across Member States. The EU should shift the focus away from aggregate cost figures and instead encourage reporting on concrete sectoral choices: for example, how many kilometers of roads will be renewed and what standards of resilience will apply. Complementary feedback on granular costsfor instance, the additional cost of making a building renovation climate-resilientwould also help. Establishing a basis of common proxies, such as annual investment volumes or water storage needs, would allow cost assessments to become more consistent. This bottom-up approach would both consolidate the EU-wide financial needs for adaptation and show what adaptation targets look like in practice. 5. Strengthen monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Improved monitoring is essential to ensure credibility and effectiveness. The Commission should combine quantitative processes (e.g., exposure indicators) with qualitative ones (e.g., structured expert reviews such as the GapTrack methodology). M&E must include an economic and budgetary component that accounts not only for expenditures dedicated to adaptation but also those contributing to this objective as a cobenefit. Assessing the degree of climate-proofing of investments and the consistency between sectoral objectives and allocated resources will provide a clearer picture of whether Europe is preparing for the long term. Methodologies already developed by international financial institutions can serve as solid foundations.
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Meeting with Charlotte Merlier (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič) and Climate Strategy

10 Jul 2025 · Climate financing, in the context of MFF and CTIP

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and Environmental Coalition on Standards and

7 Jul 2025 · Letter with 16 signatories for European Competitiveness Fund to deliver climate and energy security for EU citizens and SMEs

Meeting with Kamil Talbi (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen), Stella Kaltsouni (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen)

3 Jun 2025 · Climate investment

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

3 Jun 2025 · to discuss the outcomes of I4CE's research

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament)

22 May 2025 · MFF Adaptation

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

13 May 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal to deliver a Joint Decarbonisation and Competitiveness Roadmap

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Mar 2025 · General exchange

Meeting with Rasmus Nordqvist (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Mar 2025 · Clean Industrial deal and MFF

Meeting with Sigrid Friis (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Mar 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal, MFF and more

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jan 2025 · Climate Finance

Meeting with Miguel Jose Garcia Jones (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

21 Nov 2024 · Measuring the European Climate Investment Deficit

Meeting with Dino Toljan (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

5 Nov 2024 · To discuss the role of climate finance in transition to Net Zero.

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament) and Climate Action Network Europe and

26 Sept 2024 · CAN Energy policy conference

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

21 Feb 2024 · Ways the EU can further increase climate investments

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

29 Jun 2023 · NZIA proposal; green deal industrial plan

Response to 2023 Strategic Foresight Report

7 Mar 2023

Climate change is already impacting EU societies, with cumulative impacts. The latest example is the ongoing winter drought in western Europe, which impacts are worsened by the summer 2022 drought that occured in the same region, leading to cumulative effects that impact the EU food production, energy security (through less hydropower generation and this summer 2023 potential restriction on the cooling down thermal power plants) and industrial competitivess -for those industrial processes requiring water. Besides droughts, climate change has multidimensional impacts that will continue to worsen in the next decades. As a result, any serious strategic foresight exercice should include a deep understanding of the impacts of climate change on the EU. For that purpose the IPPC Working Group II has synthesised the best available knowledge a year ago, and its summary for policy makers is attached.
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Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

28 Jun 2022 · European Green Deal

I4CE Urges EU to Include Emissions Reductions in Carbon Certification

29 Apr 2022
Topic — The European Commission is proposing a regulatory framework for certifying carbon removals.
Message — They recommend certifying both carbon removals and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The Commission should also allow shared claims between companies and countries.12
Why — This approach would increase the influence of their established French certification model.3
Impact — Campaigners may argue that double-counting and early credits reduce actual climate progress.4
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