CSRD
Non-EU suppliers are asked for emissions data to keep their contracts
Large European buyers are writing CSRD data requests into tenders. The duty is moving out of the annual report and into the purchase contract.
Hydrogen Case study
What a hydrogen furnace actually costs a Swedish steelmaker
Capital cost, power price, and the contracts that still decide whether the switch happens.
Energy
A Nordic utility signs a 15-year power contract with an aluminium smelter
Fixed-price power is becoming the condition for keeping heavy industry in Europe.
Grids
Grids
A Polish grid operator raises its spending plan for industrial connections
Factories waiting for a connection are now the bottleneck in the transition plan.
Scope 3
Carmakers start rejecting supplier carbon data that has not been checked
A spreadsheet is no longer enough. Buyers want a third party to sign the numbers.
CSDDD
CSDDD Interview
Textile buyers move audits from factories to spinning mills
The person who ran one programme explains why the risk sits two tiers down.
CSRD Explainer
Germany's CSRD law: what changes for mid-size firms
The national text, the thresholds, and the first year a mid-size company has to report.
Partner Scope 3
How we collect supplier emissions without another spreadsheet
A practical account of rolling a carbon-accounting platform out to 400 suppliers in one buying group.
Provided by Northline Analytics
The morning brief
The stories that matter for European business, before your first meeting. Daily or weekly, your choice.
Business
Circularity
Circularity
A Czech glassworks locks in recycled cullet for five years
- Ports Rotterdam tenders shore power for the container terminals
- Energy A Spanish shipyard signs a ten-year contract for yard power
Supply Chain
VSME
Buyers start rewriting supplier questionnaires to the VSME limit
- CBAM · Explainer Steel importers from outside the EU prepare for their first CBAM payments
- CSDDD Coffee traders start asking farms for living-wage data
Editor's choice
- Leadership · Business A French retailer appoints a finance executive to run sustainability
- Energy · Business Italian ceramics makers pool their energy purchasing
- CSRD · Regulation The new EU size thresholds: who is still covered by CSRD
- Cement · Technology A cement kiln trial with calcined clay cuts clinker, not output
- Green claims · Regulation France tightens advertising rules on climate-neutral claims