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Stiftelsen The Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI

SEI is an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

1 Dec 2025 · Cooperation on R&I

Meeting with Ioan-Dragos Tudorache (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

25 Mar 2025 · International Partnership for hard-to-abate industries and expectations from LeadIT to cooperate with India.

Meeting with Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra) and Future Matters Project gGmbH

19 Jul 2024 · LeadIT initiative

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and Ragn Sells AS and

15 Apr 2024 · Implementation of the European Green Deal

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

15 Dec 2023 · Implementation of the European Green Deal

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Eesti Põllumajandus-Kaubanduskoda and

20 May 2022 · Discussion with stakeholders on the European forest-related policies, including the implementation of the EU Forest Strategy for 2030 and the LULUCF proposal

Response to EU strategy for sustainable textiles

2 Feb 2021

Response to Consultation on “Roadmap for EU strategy for sustainable textiles” Prepared by Kristiina Martin and Dr. Harri Moora on behalf of the Stockholm Environment Institute Key recommendations: 1. Each EU member state should develop a strategic approach and regulatory framework. There is a need to set national targets (based on EU targets set by relevant directives) for increased collection, reuse and recycling of textiles and policy measures that provide incentives for all relevant actors (collectors, sorters, recyclers and re-sellers of post-consumer textiles) in the value chain meet these targets. 2. Member States should ensure the economic viability of textiles collection, reuse, and recycling (e.g., by Extended Producer Responsibility scheme, waste fees and taxes). 3. Strengthen regional sorting capacity and recycling by supporting R&D and investments into relevant technologies. 4. Provide EU and national level support to new business models and the development of international business clusters in the form of grants, financial support, business counselling and coaching. 5. Adapt policies and strategies that support green/circular public procurement for increased circularity.
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Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

21 Jan 2021 · Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy

Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

Key recommendations • The threshold of 100gCO2e/kWh for power generation should be kept, and oil and gas infrastructure should not be reintroduced in the taxonomy. • The TEG’s recommendation to reduce the life cycle emissions threshold of energy generation activities from 100gCO2e/kWh in increments every five years in line with a net-zero CO2e in 2050 trajectory should be reintroduced. • Technical requirements or transitional activities should be made clearer and more stringent with respect to ensuring 1) that lock-in of carbon intensive assets are avoided, and 2) that credible pathways to climate neutrality are promoted. • Technical criteria should exclude investments in new long-lived and carbon intensive assets in manufacturing even if these assets are best in class today. • What counts as meeting the criteria of “no technological alternative” should be clarified and how these assessments will change with more stringent climate policy should also be made clear. • Greater clarity on the updating of thresholds & technical requirements is crucial if the taxonomy is going to credibly include very carbon intensive sectors as transitional given that these sectors must achieve drastic emissions reductions. • The technical criteria should set a percentage of renewable feedstock that must be achieved for plastics production to be treated as taxonomy aligned and/or thresholds of reduced lifecycle emissions compared to fossil based primary plastics production. • Criteria encouraging circular production models throughout the plastics value chain and thresholds for recycled or renewable feedstocks should be reintroduced into the Delegated Act’s technical requirements. • The screening criteria for adaptation should emphasize that for investments with lifespans over 30 years, the projections should also be equivalently long term. • The mandate of the sustainable finance platform is automatically renewed every three years from 2023 to support the review process of the EU Taxonomy Regulation outlined in Article 26. • The platform is given additional resources to solicit external advice from experts that have relevant expertise on technical criteria, data requirement, usability, or impact of the EU Taxonomy regulation. • Include calls for research in Horizon Europe on the impact of the EU Taxonomy on the financial market and the flow of capital in support of the EU’s 2030 and 2050 climate targets.
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Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

3 Jun 2020 · Webinar organised by the European Parliament and SEI on the European Green Deal and recovery