NEW: Asian-European battery plant partnerships are not meeting EU air pollution standards or resulting in technology transfer, despite millions in EU subsidies. 🧵 - ThreadSky

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transenv.bsky.social • 13 days ago

NEW: Asian-European battery plant partnerships are not meeting EU air pollution standards or resulting in technology transfer, despite millions in EU subsidies.
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transenv.bsky.social•13 days ago

External experts commissioned by T&E found that despite receiving €900 million in state aid subsidies, no environmental or social conditions were attached by the European Commission to the Chinese-owned CATL plant in Hungary or the South Korean-owned LG plant in Poland.
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transenv.bsky.social•13 days ago

Both plants have breached EU air pollution rules due to excessive levels of NMP, a toxic substance used in cathode manufacturing.

The review also concluded that there is no knowledge transfer happening in the Chinese-EU partnership plants in Germany and Spain.
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transenv.bsky.social•13 days ago

No local gains are being realised by these battery projects, despite subsidies coming from the EU’s post-Covid recovery fund.

Combined with the poor working conditions recently reported at these facilities, this paints a worrying picture of Chinese-EU battery partnerships.
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transenv.bsky.social•13 days ago

With over 90% of all electric car and storage batteries in the EU currently produced by Asian manufacturers, Europe risks becoming an assembly plant where no environmental or labour rules are respected if the situation continues as it is.
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transenv.bsky.social•13 days ago

The EU plan's for the auto sector should also include a batteries strategy that prioritises investigating unfair battery subsidies in China, setting firm state aid requirements and establishing binding CO2 rules to access the EU market.

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