15th Concawe Symposium

The 15^th edition of the Concawe Symposium took place on Monday 16^th October 2023 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.

This 2023 edition focused on challenges and opportunities to meet EU’s climate and air quality objectives and the potential contribution to those of the fuel manufacturing industry.

The Symposium started with two keynote speeches, one highlighted the challenges and strategies for refiners in a decarbonising world, and the other one compared the supporting policies on both side of the Atlantic Ocean. Then, the first session set the general context of Fit-for-55 and discussed some of the key challenges but also the enabling technologies which could be used at scale to decarbonise Europe: electrification and batteries, electrolysis and green hydrogen, renewable and low-carbon fuels (including advanced biofuels and e-fuels). The second session in the same day explored the latest trends and focused on multi-contribution scenarios. Each session ended by a debate with the speakers, in which the public was invited to ask questions and share comments and experiences.

The 2^nd day was unfortunately cancelled due to the terrorist attack in Brussels on the night of the 16^th October and the level of emergency raised at its maximum. This second day dedicated to ambient air quality and source apportionment modelling will be rescheduled.

You can find below the presentations from each speaker:

Keynotes speeches:

Christopher J Barry, Wood Mackenzie

• Presentation: Challenges and strategies for refiners in a decarbonising world
• Recording: Click here

Andrei Marcu, ERCST

• Presentation: Comparison IRA versus NZIA
• Recording: Click here

Session 1 - Challenges, are there any hurdles to decarbonisation scenarios?

Jean-Pierre Debruxelles & Jean-Marie Mizzi, FuelsEurope

• Presentation: The Fit-for-55 package: overview of some specific results
• Recording: Click here

Louis-Marie Malbec, IFP Energies nouvelles

• Presentation: Batteries raw materials 
• Recording: Click here

Ric Hoefnagels, Utrecht University & Ivan Vera, TNO

• Presentation: Sustainable biomass feedstock supply chains for advanced biofuels
• Recording: Click here

Maria Manso Martin, AFRY

• Presentation: Limits to the production of renewable and low-carbon fuels: feedstock biodiversity impact assessment

Arend de Groot, TNO

• Presentation: Scaling-up green hydrogen – challenging ambitions
• Recording: Click here

Pieter Lodewijks, VITO

• Presentation: How can Belgium become carbon-neutral between now and 2050?
• Recording: Click here

Session 2 - Opportunities, how to make the low-carbon transition successful?

Joris Melgar, IFP Energies nouvelles

• Presentation: LCA as a method and a tool (passenger cars and HDV)
• Recording: Click here

David Bothe, Frontier Economics

• Presentation: Transformation of mobility in the climate-neutral and post-fossil age
• Recording: Click here

Dieter Walter, Concawe

• Presentation: Optimal vehicle electrification level in a battery-constrained future
• Recording: Click here

Giacomo Rispoli, NextChem

• Presentation: Waste-to-hydrogen
• Recording: Click here

Rémi Cornubert, Strat Anticipation

• Presentation: Why developing a robust, competitive, resilient, sovereign & sustainable battery industry is critical to succeed the Green Energy transition
• Recording: Click here

For more information on the agenda and the topics, please check the programme.

For any questions about the event, please contact symposium@concawe.eu.