EU Chemicals Sector Embarks on Transition Pathway

The landscape for the EU’s chemical sector faces several significant and simultaneous changes that are needed to reshape the industry to fulfill the EU’s Green Deal. In short it is required to: •  Become climate neutral. •  Increase circularity. • Digitalize and implement the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS). •  Maintain global competitiveness. The Chemical Strategy for Sustainability alone represents a whole new layer of challenges for the EU chemical industry and CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council, has already commissioned and published a report on what the possible consequences are for the industry. Bearing this in mind, CEFIC asked EU policymakers and EU member state governments to cooperate in converting the CSS into a growth and innovation strategy. Possible Long-Term Consequence for Industry Original findings from the first report commissioned by CEFIC showed that something approaching 12,