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Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Axel Hellman (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and Norrsken House Brussels

19 Jan 2026 · The possibility of organizing an event around the commissioner’s political priorities in 2026

Meeting with Bart Groothuis (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jan 2026 · Industrial policies

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2025 · Grids Package

Meeting with Paulo Cunha (Member of the European Parliament) and Autodesk, Inc.

8 Dec 2025 · MFF - ECF

Meeting with Axel Hellman (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

12 Nov 2025 · Cabinet and representatives discussed ongoing files including the environmental omnibus, the European Water Resilience Strategy, and the upcoming Circular Economy Act.

Sustainable Banking Coalition urges 50% EU budget climate allocation

10 Nov 2025
Topic — Consultation on performance and reporting for the post-2027 EU long-term budget.
Message — The coalition recommends dedicating at least 50% of the budget to climate goals and applying environmental standards uniformly. They also suggest creating a helpdesk and proportional reporting rules for smaller financial institutions.123
Why — This would reduce administrative costs and simplify funding access for smaller sustainable retail banks.45
Impact — Fossil fuel sectors lose funding opportunities as the coalition seeks to exclude all harmful investments.67
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Response to EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for competitiveness

7 Nov 2025

The Sustainable Banking Coalition (SBC) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this public consultation. We believe the European Competitiveness Fund should become a critical instrument to strengthen public finance, de-risk private investments, and accelerate innovation to reach the EUs objectives. Retail banks play a crucial role in channelling MFF resources to the real economy, supporting the EUs climate, environmental, and social objectives while sharing risks and ensuring efficient delivery of funds. Their involvement strengthens the capacity of EU programs to stimulate growth, job creation, and cohesion across the Union. To promote the efficient use of EU budgetary resources, the SBC calls for an increased use of strategic financial instruments to de-risk clean investments, strengthen future-fit banks, and crowd in private capital, especially through guarantees and tailored equity tools. The SBC welcomes Article 22 on the development of a scale-up facility by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Investment Bank Group, other international financial institutions and National Promotional Banks. The SBC particularly welcomes Article 25.3, which allows to exceptionally entrust private bodies with the implementation of a budgetary guarantee or financial instrument. To ensure maximum efficiency, the SBC recommends empowering sustainable retail banks as financial intermediaries to deliver the European Competitiveness Funds objectives under Article 29. Ethical, cooperative, and sustainable retail banks are predominantly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the Unions financial system. Despite their limited size, they can play a crucial role in channelling Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) resources to the real economy, especially to other SMEs, supporting the EUs clean transition objectives, while sharing risks and ensuring efficient delivery of funds. Strengthening their capital base through a Green Equity Facility would enable them to expand sustainable lending, enhance financial inclusion, stimulate growth, job creation, and cohesion across the Union. To promote a fair access to resources under the current MFF, the SBC also calls for reinforced public-private collaboration through simplified procedures, inclusive design, and performance-based incentives, that make EU funding and financial instruments more accessible to smaller, mission-driven financial institutions. The SBC hence welcomes Article 31 of the European Competitiveness Fund on Access to Union Funding and calls for the streamlining and increased transparency of application procedures for guarantees and credit lines under the European Investment Bank framework. The SBC would like to emphasize the need for tailored funding access procedures to the needs of smaller financial institutions by reducing complexity and scaling documentation requirements proportionally. The SBC recommends setting up an EU-level helpdesk for small financial institutions to receive direct guidance and multilingual support. Call requirements should also be designed to accommodate smaller portfolios and more limited geographic coverage, thereby enhancing accessibility for diverse financial actors. To avoid unnecessary administrative burden, reporting and audit obligations should be proportional to the size of the portfolio. A specific design proposal to involve sustainable retail banks in the European Competitiveness Fund through a Green Equity Facility is included in the attached paper. We look forward to continued dialogue with the European Commission on shaping an effective and ambitious fund.
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Meeting with Danuše Nerudová (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Oct 2025 · Clean tech working group

Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Oct 2025 · 2040 climate target

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament) and Cleantech for Europe

21 Oct 2025 · European Grid Package

Meeting with Ana Vasconcelos (Member of the European Parliament) and Fastned BV

21 Oct 2025 · CO2 emission performance standards for cars and vans regulation (Regulation 2023/851)

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

8 Oct 2025 · 2040 Climate target

Meeting with Sara Matthieu (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Oct 2025 · CE Act

Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2025 · Presenting their clients

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament) and Cellular Agriculture Europe

30 Sept 2025 · Food policy

Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

24 Sept 2025 · CBAM coalition launch event

Meeting with Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra) and Unknown Organization

22 Sept 2025 · Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) opportunities

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Sept 2025 · Environmental policies

Meeting with Philippe Lamberts (Principal Adviser Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

3 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on how to bring the EGD/CID forward and the contribution of clean tech

Meeting with Flavio Facioni (Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi) and International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association

2 Jul 2025 · Biocontrol solutions

Meeting with Lukasz Kolinski (Director Energy) and Unknown Organization

2 Jul 2025 · Grids Package and Electrification Action Plan

Meeting with Stella Kaltsouni (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen) and Unknown Organization

2 Jul 2025 · Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES)

Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

26 Jun 2025 · CBAM & ETS

Meeting with Alisa Tiganj (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association

18 Jun 2025 · Measures needed to accelerate the authorisation of biocontrol in the EU, including potential EFSA configurations to increase biocontrol's availability in the EU market

Meeting with Ana Vasconcelos (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jun 2025 · EVs

Meeting with Geraldine Mahieu (Director Economic and Financial Affairs)

26 May 2025 · MFF implications for retail banks in financing the clean transition

Meeting with Giorgio Chiarion Casoni (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

26 May 2025 · Exchange on InvestEU, RRF and the MFF financial instruments and how these frameworks can more effectively support retail banks, particularly in their role as key enablers of SME financing and the clean transition.

Meeting with Christophe Hansen (Commissioner) and

30 Apr 2025 · Sustainable Protein Diversification for the Vision

Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Apr 2025 · Briefing Clean Industrial State Aid Framework

Meeting with Bas Eickhout (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Apr 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Radan Kanev (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Apr 2025 · cleantech decarbonisation techniques

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

28 Mar 2025 · Startup and scaleup strategy

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · Industrial policy, NZIA implementation

Meeting with Brigitte Van Den Berg (Member of the European Parliament) and Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag

18 Mar 2025 · Green transition of industry

Meeting with Kamil Talbi (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen) and Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag

17 Mar 2025 · low-carbon and fossil-free iron

Meeting with Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2025 · Omnibus

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and KIC InnoEnergy SE

27 Feb 2025 · Grids INI

Meeting with Dario Tamburrano (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Euroheat and Power

25 Feb 2025 · Reti elettriche

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2025 · Cleantech, Clean industrial deal

Meeting with Mark Nicklas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

4 Feb 2025 · Automotive Type Approval related topics

Meeting with Brigitte Van Den Berg (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

28 Jan 2025 · Decarbonisation of the cement sector

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and WindEurope

22 Jan 2025 · Grids INI

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and Autodesk, Inc.

15 Jan 2025 · EU Water Policy

Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Dec 2024 · Priorities for the mandate

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Nov 2024 · Priorities for the new mandate

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Nov 2024 · Critical Raw Materials, Cement, EPR

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Nov 2024 · Food Policy, Circular Economy, Biocontrol

Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Nov 2024 · Environment, Circular Economy

Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Oct 2024 · Biotech industry

Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Oct 2024 · EU competitiveness, circular economy

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Oct 2024 · Clean industrial deal related issues

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Oct 2024 · Green Deal

Meeting with Bart Groothuis (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · CCS, electricity prices

Meeting with Paulo Cunha (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Industry and Clean Technologies

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Jul 2024 · Industrial Policy

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and Plastics Europe

17 Jul 2024 · Green Deal

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament) and VERBUND AG

16 Jul 2024 · Expectations on the new European Parliament and EU Commission (EU Industry Policy, Global Trade, Green Deal, Energy Policy)

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

2 May 2024 · Green Industrial Deal

Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament) and Moeve

11 Apr 2024 · Dinner with hydrogen value chain actors and cleantech investors

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and TOPSOE A/S

22 Mar 2024 · Industrial policy

Meeting with Andreea Ticheru (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Corbion

11 Mar 2024 · EU Biotech initiative

Meeting with Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra) and SOLER group

22 Feb 2024 · Sustainable biocarbon and biochar

Meeting with Gilles Boyer (Member of the European Parliament) and Tomorrow GmbH

13 Feb 2024 · Sustainable Finance

Meeting with Ville Niinistö (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Nov 2023 · Current topics of EU policy

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Sept 2023 · SUR - APA

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jul 2023 · (APA) Geothermal Energy

Meeting with Gilles Boyer (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2023 · Sustainable Finance

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2023 · NZIA - APA

#SustainablePublicAffairs urges EU to reach climate neutrality by 2040

20 Jun 2023
Topic — The European Commission is establishing a climate target for the year 2040.
Message — The organization advocates for the EU to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. They want to make the performance of sustainable frontrunners the market norm through more ambitious policies. Key proposals include prioritizing low-carbon proteins and integrating renewable energy into the grid.123
Why — Ambitious climate targets would create market advantages for the agency's sustainable clients.45
Impact — Fossil fuel companies would lose vital investment and be excluded from the market.67
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Meeting with Damien Carême (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

25 May 2023 · Echanges de vues sur le NZIA (Staff level)

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

31 Mar 2023 · Exchange on geothermal district heating (staff level)

Meeting with Jakop G. Dalunde (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2023 · Speaker: SustaianbleJam

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Novelis Europe

16 Sept 2022 · Circular economy, the revision of the packaging and packaging waste directive, and specificities of the aluminium sector

Meeting with Bas Eickhout (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Jun 2022 · Green finance

Meeting with Sara Matthieu (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

15 Jun 2022 · Ecodesign Regulation

Meeting with Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and First Ammonia

5 May 2022 · Role of hydrogen in RePowerEU Plan

Meeting with Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius), Carmen Preising (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and

14 Jul 2021 · Handover joint letter Micro-Algae coalition for sustainable fisheries

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 Dec 2020 · Online discussion with #SustainablePublicAffairs - Iron and steel in EU Green Deal

Meeting with Jori Keijsper (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Nov 2020 · Introduction to Sustainable Public Affairs

Response to Updating Member State emissions reduction targets (Effort Sharing Regulation) in line with the 2030 climate target plan

26 Nov 2020

Corbion thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to respond to the inception impact assessment for reviewing the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR). Corbion fully supports the Commission’s proposal to increase Europe’s 2030 climate target to at least 55% and agrees that all sectors, including those covered by the ESR, need to step up their ambition accordingly. Though at this point we do not have a specific preference for any of the three options described in the inception IA, Corbion does agree that carbon pricing can provide the most cost-effective way to guide climate-friendly investments in the agricultural sector. Because it is not known whether agricultural emissions should have a stand-alone emissions trading system or whether it should be integrated into the existing EU ETS, we ask the Commission to lay out the pros and cons of each scenario in its forthcoming impact assessments. Furthermore, Corbion believes that all emission trading systems should include not just scope I emissions (i.e. those from direct production) but also scope II and III (e.g. emissions coming from energy use, key raw materials and transport). Corbion works together with several key stakeholders to help measure Corbion’s scope I, II and III emissions (in the attached PDF, please see our Sustainability statements/Natural capital/ Greenhouse gas emissions and work with CDP) and we would therefore be happy to help the Commission with good practices. About Corbion Corbion (www.corbion.com) is the global market leader in lactic acid and its derivatives, and a leading supplier of emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins, and algae ingredients. We use our unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production, health, and our planet. Corbion has committed to reducing our CO2 emissions related to energy, key raw materials, and transport by 33% per ton of product by 2030 from a 2016 base year. To achieve this goal, we combine on-site generation with the purchase of renewable electricity from suppliers. In 2019, we increased our renewable electricity coverage globally to 58%. Concerning scope III, the use of lime in our lactic acid production process contributes significantly to our emissions. We have developed a new technology for lactic acid production that eliminates the use of lime. This new technology will be implemented in our new to build lactic acid factory that will be operational in 2023, resulting in a significantly lower carbon footprint.
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