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T&E, RECHARGE, Cleantech for Europe and EIES have written to the European Commission urging that the upcoming Circular Economy Act introduce measures to help scale Europe’s battery recycling capacity. With over half of Europe’s battery recycling capacity at risk and at least 60% of Europe’s black mass leaving the EU, the letter calls for action to stop black mass leakage and to encourage investment in EU refining capacity.

As a new kind of low-intensity warfare spreads across Europe, ranging from grid sabotage and drone incursions to AI-enabled cyberattacks by state and non-state actors, Europe must move faster to protect its energy system.

Security must keep pace with Europe’s offshore wind expansion, EIES report warns.

The EU should open state aid to cleantech manufacturing to meet electrification goals

Europe is funding its Chinese battery dependence, EIES report warns

Sixteen independent energy security experts, including Albéric Mongrenier, EIES’ Executive Director, and General Tom Middendorp (Ret.), member of the ESLC-E, former Netherlands Chief of Defence, Chairman of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, have written to Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, urging a stronger response to the ongoing global oil and gas crisis.

The group of former military chiefs, academics, and geopolitics experts says that accelerating the transition to clean, safe, and affordable energy systems is a security imperative. It calls on the IEA to provide guidance to governments on how to reduce exposure to volatile oil and gas markets, as it did to the EU immediately after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

On Friday, 13 February, SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy and the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) hosted a high-level dinner on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, ‘The Elements of an Alliance? NATO’s critical minerals imperative.’ The dinner brought together representatives from NATO and Allied governments, and leaders from the defence and minerals sectors to assess how the Alliance can deliver the greatest value in coordinating and implementing new investments in critical minerals supply chains and best align with efforts by the US, EU, G7, Allied nations, and Asian partners.