A clean-tech race is in full swing. The largest economies in the world – from the United States to India, from China to Japan – have all started to invest massively in green innovation. While this can only be good news for our planet, it is of course a lot of pressure on the EU’s own clean transition.
In order to achieve the EU’s clean transition, we need both a global and a European level playing field. This means getting better at nurturing our own industry – from hydrogen to chemicals, from biotech to nanotech. And it is to achieve this goal that the Green Deal Industrial Plan for Europe has been launched.