Clean Industrial Deal
Clean Industrial Deal
Positioning flat glass at the heart of Europe’s industrial transformation by securing competitiveness and enabling decarbonisation.
The Clean Industrial Deal is a flagship initiative on the European Commission’s agenda for the 2024-2029 mandate. Designed to address Europe’s competitiveness challenges and ensure the EU’s sustainable prosperity, the Deal focuses on six key levers: Energy security and energy prices, financing, recycling and critical raw materials, labour and skills, lead markets and global action. On all of the above-mentioned issues, measures must be taken to ensure that the flat glass sector remains a competitive supplier of an advanced strategic material for Europe as it continues and intensifies its own efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Currently, the flat glass sector is facing serious competitiveness challenges, exacerbated by high energy costs and a significant decline in demand from the construction and automotive sectors. So to steer the Clean Industrial Deal in the right direction and ensure that it pays sufficient attention to all energy-intensive industries, Glass for Europe has formulated recommendations around three main blocks:
This dedicated page gathers all our resources on the issues of European industrial policy and competitiveness.
Boost strategic sectors as flat glass manufacturing with support measures
Care for industrial competitiveness to support decarbonisation efforts
Give sustainable construction the central role it deserves in a new industrial policy
2050 | Flat Glass in Climate-Neutral Europe
The flat glass sector is indispensable to the massive decarbonisation of the building, transport and energy sectors, which represent the lion’s share of Europe’s CO2 emissions. Flat glass manufacturing is also an energy-intensive activity. The sector takes it as its duty to reduce its own CO2 emissions, which represents a significant challenge in moving towards carbon neutrality. In today’s climate urgency context, the flat glass sector wants to offer its vision of a rapidly actionable virtuous decarbonisation cycle.
Our Vision for 2050
Boost windows replacement
To reduce total energy consumption by 37% in buildings in 2050
Support energy and carbon efficiency of industrial process
To drastically cut out CO₂ emissions from glass manufacturing
Incentivise the recycling of old glazing
To transform 1.5 Mt of glass waste into a resource
Strengthen Europe's Industrial Base
To make of the climate neutrality journey an opportunity for Europe’s industry
Related Publications
July 2025
Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act Keeping administrative burdens light to balance with marginal benefits expected from new labels
March 2025
Glass for Europe reacts to the publication of the Clean Industrial Deal following the European Industry Summit 2025
January 2025
Clean Industrial Deal – Supporting the flat glass sector to enable sustainable transformations in advanced materials
May 2023