Understanding the upcoming policy developments toward a sustainable, climate neutral, fossil free, biobased and circular economy is essential to determine and strengthen your market position for the future. We can provide strategic support to understand these developments and to assess how regulations will impact.

Equally, governmental bodies need to understand market players perspectives to design effective policies. We have a good understanding of market initiatives and innovation plans for renewable energy and fuels, and circular products.

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Which plausible futures might materialise and which are the crucial uncertainties that influence to a ‘make or break’ level your activities? How will competitors, regulators, clients act in a specific scenario and are your well-prepared to act.

The current transition from a fossil-based economy to a society that should operate within planetary boundaries will probably be turbulent. It will require careful exploration and strategic dialogue to understand how renewable energy, sustainable carbon and circular materials might be implemented under such plausible scenarios and how this impacts your organisation’s position and opportunities.

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ETS2, ETD, CBAM, RED2, RED3,CSRD, ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation, EUDR – all these abbreviations are examples of new EU directives and regulations to transition to a climate neutral European Union that will require compliance of your organisation.

In dedicated workshops we will provide basic understanding of such upcoming regulations, but more importantly, explore how these regulations might impact your product offerings and strategic positioning.

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Renewable fuels and materials do have a lower well-to-wheel/Wake/Wing / well-to-product carbon footprint. We can provide clear insight in the exact greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings per functional unit compared to the fossil references by carrying out detailed and thorough carbon footprint assessments, following regulation approved methods. When needed we can build carbon footprint tools for in-house calculations.

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The studio Gear Up Transport Scenarios (GUTS) model has been designed to project the energy consumption and GHG emissions developments in the comping decades for the European Transport sectors. With the model, on basis of existing and announced policy instruments, insights might be gained on how energy consumption and GHG emissions might evolve.

Furthermore, we have developed a TCO – total cost of ownership – model to compare the TCO performance of various light duty and heavy duty vehicles when using battery electric or internal combustion engine drivetrains in different EU countries. for combustion engine vehicles we can include the use or renewable fuels as replacement for fossil-based diesel or gasoline.

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The studio Gear Up Green Production Facilities provides an overview of global production facilities for renewable fuels and energy carriers.

The database aggregates data from multiple sources and can provide customer-specific overview and visuals of global or regional facilities, including their status of ooperation The database covers many types of renewable fuels (both bio- and e-fuels, among others various maritime and Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), FAME, HVO, ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, ammonia.

The database includes detailed information on each project, including administrative information (ownership, involved companies, location), stage of research, operation or development and (expected) project start up. Furthermore, we’ve included details on the conversion technologies used at each facility, feedstock types and volumes, product types and volumes, and targeted end-use markets.

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