Environment
Eco-innovation Action Plan
As negotiations continue over provisions in the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) community has time to explore how best to support the industry’s transition and ultimately meet expectations laid out under the...
The annual ADEME International Club event was held on 8 December 2021 at the Novotel Vaugirard in Paris. Over 40 cleantech entrepreneurs and CEOs who operate in France and internationally attended the event. ETV was honoured to be part of the meeting and to present the scheme.
The audience was very engaged in the presentation and asked...
Ahead of future legislation, the European Commission has launched a public consultation to explore the problem of unintentionally released microplastics from tyres, textiles, and plastic pellets on the environment. The ETV community is encouraged to contribute.
The idea is to improve our understanding of microplastics in the environment...
The Italian company, Deref S.p.a. (DEmolizione REFrattari) has developed ReStOre, a circular economy solution for recycling waste within steel-making plants. Testing at an electric arc furnace stainless steel plant has shown a 95% recycling rate (compared with the 50% typically achieved to date), 80% “short loop” reuse in the same...
Electrochaea, a company based in Germany, has a patented biocatalyst called ‘Biocat’ that converts carbon dioxide into gas of a high enough quality to be used immediately for heating or in the natural gas power grid.
With its energy needs provided by renewable electricity, the process can turn waste industrial CO2 into renewable methane...
The Environmental Technology Verification programme (ETV) offers huge potential to technology developers, investors, and buyers such as public procurement. To get the message out, ETV attended Pollutec 2021 in Lyon, France, from 12 to 15 October 2021.
Founded in 1978, Pollutec offers a...
To help technology providers bring new innovative environmental technologies to market, the European Commission’s Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) programme offers third-party validation of environmental performance, providing credibility and competitive advantage. At a recent webinar, experts and users of ETV presented the...
With more than 40 years of experience in construction product approvals, ETA-Danmark is an established ETV verification body based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The ETV Secretariat team recently asked ETA-Danmark about their experience of the programme.
Could you please introduce yourselves to our readers? What is ETA-Danmark’...
The Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB) is an ETV verification body headquartered in Marne-la-Vallée, France. In this interview, the ETV Secretariat spoke to the CSTB about their experience operating within the EU ETV programme.
Tell us about the CSTB and its role in testing, verification and...
On 29 September 2021, t...
FuturaMat is a bioplastic compounder based near Poitiers, France, that develops and markets bioplastics in order to both use renewable raw materials and provide an alternative to using fossil fuel resources. The...
The Call
The ETV Secretariat is seeking expressions of interest from qualified experts to conduct independent services for the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Programme. The candidates should have enough expertise in at least one of the technological areas (Water treatment and monitoring, Materials, waste and...
Are you a partner and start-up participating in the EIT Community (EIT RawMaterials, EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Food, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility)?
This article has been posted on behalf of the LIFEproETV project.
The LIFEproETV project is co-funded by the European Union’s LIFE Programme. The project aims to explore the potential of Environmental Technology Verification (ETV), communicate it to stakeholders and...
Get your products and technologies verified!
ETV is a straightforward process that reassures your customers and gives you a competitive edge. There are verification bodies in a range of EU countries able to test and validate the performance...
Manufacturers of environmental technologies to benefit from expanded EU ETV scheme
The new EU Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Programme will promote...
The voting for the EIT Public Award 2020 has just been opened! The public can now have their say on Europe’s top innovation.
Cast your vote here:...
The EIT RawMaterials launched a 2020 call for KAVA (KIC Added-Value Activity) Upscaling Projects, which are innovation projects based on validated technologies that need additional step(s) for up-scaling, demonstration or implementation. The call includes the possibility to support the verification of the technology performance...
Le programme européen de vérification des technologies environnementales ETV (Environmental Technology Verification) piloté par la Commission Européenne vise à promouvoir le développement des technologies environnementales novatrices respectant les priorités environnementales. Ce...
