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Commitment and action to deliver on the EU forest protection objective

6 Oct 2021
All Committees
Agriculture & Food
Environment

The EU Green Deal promotes halting deforestation and ecosystem degradation that result from unsustainable agricultural practices.  

Find out how Cargill is taking action in its cocoa, palm oil and soy supply chains in order to achieve the company’s commitment of 100% deforestation-and conversion-free supply chains by 2030. 

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay. 

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Protecting crops - and the environment

5 Oct 2021
All Committees
Agriculture & Food
Environment

We need to protect our crops from fungal diseases. Gowan is developing natural solutions that contribute to reducing the use of chemical fungicides and boosting innovation.

Read how this family-owned company supports the targets of the EU Biodiversity Strategy. 

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay. 

Minister Moreno and Commissioner Dalli hope for swift action on diversity and inclusion

1 Oct 2021
All Committees

The pandemic has shone a light on the importance of progressing on equality and inclusion. This was the fundamental point made during an online event centred around the plans and expectations for the upcoming French Council Presidency. The session was hosted jointly by AmCham EU and AmCham France on 28 September 2021.

Trade and Technology Council: a significant step for the transatlantic partnership

29 Sep 2021
All Committees
Transatlantic

On Wednesday, 29 September, the EU and the US formalised their cooperation on emerging trade and technology issues, following an inaugural Trade and Technology Council summit in Pittsburgh. The EU and US agreed on areas for common action and the Council’s attention must now turn to yielding swift results in order to strengthen the world’s largest trade and investment relationship. 

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After COVID-19: what is the future of the global trade network?

28 Sep 2021
All Committees

On Tuesday, 21 September, AmCham EU hosted a plenary meeting on trade and external affairs. Ahead of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference and in the context of renewed EU-US cooperation through the Trade and Technology Council, the plenary meeting discussed the role of the EU-US relationship in the future of the WTO and the global trading system.

Trade and Technology Council: enhancing EU-US cooperation

28 Sep 2021
All Committees
Digital Economy
Trade & External Affairs

On Wednesday, 29 September, the EU and the US will meet in Pittsburgh to inaugurate the recently-announced Trade and Technology Council (TTC). The TTC will serve as a forum to cooperate on trade, economic and technology issues based on their shared values. The Council is divided into ten working groups that will strive to further enhance the world’s most prosperous trade and investment partnership, establish common international standards and address trade barriers.  

IBM blockchain

Enabling the energy transition with Blockchain

24 Sep 2021
All Committees
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

Blockchain can play a key role to speed up the integration and decarbonisation of energy markets.This is why IBM built a blockchain-based ‘Crowd Balancing Platform’ for electricity grid balancing with Equigy, a new joint venture by four major European electricity grid operators. It allows these operators to register, track and validate in a secure and immutable way, tens of thousands of small, consumer-produced energy transactions, using data from IoT devices, such as smart meters or charging points.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

The birth of the hydrogen-powered society

24 Sep 2021
All Committees
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

Hydrogen can be used to produce low carbon fuels for domestic heating and industrial processes or combined with air in a fuel cell to produce electricity. With a rising focus in the European Union on the effective integration of renewable energy, the importance of electric vehicles and reliable, resilient energy supply, energy storage is becoming an increasingly important factor in the electricity ecosystem. Chemours, a global leader in Proton Exchange Membranes, is developing new Nafion™ solutions to meet this demand for cleaner energy to produce electricity, and to power mobility.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance: we need to act now

24 Sep 2021
All Committees
Healthcare

Antimicrobial drugs are undervalued for their revolutionary impact on human society. Their discovery in the early 20th century corresponds with a dramatic increase in global life expectancy. Thanks to the development of various classes of antimicrobial agents throughout the last century, death at the hands of bacterial infection has become significantly less of a risk. However, the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria serves to dilute the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents. Andrea Chiarello (Pfizer), Chair, Healthcare Committee shares why we need to act now on antimicrobial resistance.

Cisco IoT and renewables

Reducing carbon footprint with IoT technology

24 Sep 2021
All Committees
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

The European Union wants to get at least 32% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 and is aiming to be climate-neutral by 2050. To keep stability in the energy system, there has to be a balance between production and consumption of energy. Cisco has developed technology solutions to help utility providers collect, visualise and efficiently analyse critical data on the network and the flux of energy entering and leaving that grid. This allows for prediction on how much energy is available or consumed at a given time to keep stability in the energy system.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

US travel restrictions

US lifts restrictions on transatlantic travel

21 Sep 2021
All Committees
Transatlantic

The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU) welcomes the decision by the US Administration to lift travel restrictions for vaccinated travellers from the EU and other countries as of November. This announcement is an important step for many citizens, but also for global companies that rely on travel for their operations. Transatlantic cooperation on the re-opening of our economies, including lifting restrictions in a safe and coordinated manner, is critical to a strong recovery on both sides of the Atlantic. This positive decision can also help strengthen EU-US relations overall.

Third Country Branches

Responding to the proposed changes to the supervisory regime for third-country branches

17 Sep 2021
Financial Services

Wholesale branch-based banking – both within the EU and globally – contributes to the financing of EU and non-EU-companies, thereby enhancing competition, global connectivity, market diversity and access to deep pools of capital and liquidity. In reaction to the recent European Banking Authority’s report on the treatment of incoming third-country branches (TCBs), AmCham EU calls for proportionality when harmonising the EU’s supervisory regime for third-country branches in a joint letter with the Bank Policy Institute, the Japanese Bankers Association and the Swiss Finance Council.

Utilising geothermal energy to power industrial sites

17 Sep 2021
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

Janssen’s Beerse campus in Belgium is one of Johnson & Johnson’s largest campuses worldwide. In 2019, a geothermal energy project was started that involves drilling wells about 2.5 km deep, pumping up hot water from deep within the earth to generate heat for use on the property before returning it to the earth. With completion expected by Autumn 2021, the installation of this fourth-generation smart heat grid will cut 30% of CO2 emissions at that property and can save 15,900 metric tons of CO2 per year.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

First Solar EU Green Way

Leading the world’s sustainable energy future

13 Sep 2021
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

First Solar is a leading global provider of responsibly-produced solar modules advancing the fight against climate change. The company has placed innovation at the heart of its business model, spending over $1.4bn cumulatively in the R&D of its differentiated photovoltaic technology. The company’s thin film technology encapsulates a semiconductor 33 times thinner than a human hair between two reinforced sheets of glass to generate clean electricity for 30+ years. As the EU strives towards the Renewable Energy Directive’s goals of 32% renewables by 2030, solar will be an essential component of the European electricity grid. 

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

Tackling the methane challenge with gas cloud imaging

13 Sep 2021
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

The ambitious European Green Deal calls for zero net emission of greenhouses gases by 2050.  To achieve this goal, the reduction of methane is a clear and effective way, as methane traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and accounts for a quarter of total atmospheric warming to date. However, traditional methane leak detection and repair (LDAR) has drawbacks. As a response, Honeywell has recently introduced a new class of technology solution called gas cloud imaging (GCI) , which can address the shortcomings in the current LDAR method. This technology uses visual and hyperspectral sensors supported by intelligent analytics to provide automated and continuous methane monitoring, detecting leaks as soon as they happen. 

Risk communication holds the key to sustainable agri-food

10 Sep 2021
Agriculture & Food
Environment
Trade & External Affairs

Risk communication is of utmost importance to the agri-food industry – especially when it comes to differentiating ‘hazards’ from ‘risks’. That was the key takeaway from AmCham EU’s sixth Agri-food Risk Roundtable, held on Wednesday, 8 September. This year’s edition focused on how risk assessment and management should be amplified by solid risk communication to generate sound risk perception. The roundtable brought together policy makers from both sides of the Atlantic, industry representatives, NGOs and academia to share best practices regarding different models of risk perception in the food and agriculture sector.

Tech Fit 4 Europe

Time to make tech fit for Europe

7 Sep 2021
Digital Economy
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

As part of its ambitious sustainability goals, Microsoft is working with partners across Europe to help shape a greener tomorrow. Through a collaboration with Microsoft, Danfoss, a Danish engineering company, has created a cloud based IoT solution providing food retailers with new ways to manage operations by using a combination of sensors and data algorithms. These new solutions in turn help to realise up to 40% net savings in energy consumption and enable retailers to reduce food loss, energy consumption and optimize overall store performance.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

Data Act consultation

Data sharing: boosting economic growth, research and innovation, competitiveness, and job creation

6 Sep 2021
Digital Economy

The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU) shares the objectives of the European Commission to increase access to and further the use of data through the proposed ‘Data Act’. In its response provided to the European Commission’s consultation, AmCham EU argues that the Data Act should promote more data sharing in order to boost economic growth, research and innovation, competitiveness, and job creation. 

Goodyear solar panels

Partnering to deliver cleaner energy for Europe

6 Sep 2021
Environment
Transport, Energy & Climate

Solar energy is the energy of the future. As Europe seeks to decarbonise its economy, solar energy will become an ever-more important component of the energy supply. That is why The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is working together with energy supplier Enovos to build two large solar power stations at its testing facilities in Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, as part of its commitment to reduce carbon emissions.

Learn more at The Green Way and join the conversation on Twitter with #EUGreenWay.

crop field

Effective risk communication for an innovative, sustainable and trusted agri-food industry

2 Sep 2021
Agriculture & Food
Environment
Trade & External Affairs

As global food insecurity rises, innovation will be key to the agri-food sector's ability to feed the world. Regulators and risk assessors have a vital role to play for a sustainable, secure and trusted industry capable of feeding more mouths with a smaller footprint. With the global population set to reach 10 billion by 2050, it is clear that the agri-food sector will have to do more with less in order to meet the most basic needs of the species in a sustainable way.

Join speakers from both sides of the Atlantic who will be further discussing the future of agri-food at AmCham EU’s Agri-food Risk Roundtable on Wednesday, 8 September.

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