These topics aim to support and advance innovative low-carbon technologies and processes to significantly mitigate climate change in sectors listed in Annex I and Annex III to the EU ETS Directive 2003/87/EC, promoting sustainable development and technological leadership within Europe.

The following activities are in scope under this topic:

− Innovation in Low-Carbon Technologies and Processes: activities that support innovation in low-carbon technologies and processes in sectors listed in Annex I and Annex III to the EU ETS Directive 2003/87, including projects focusing on the utilization of waste heat and improvements in electrification and energy efficiency within industrial processes and energy systems; activities involving environmentally safe carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) that significantly mitigate climate change, development of products that substitute carbon intensive ones produced in sectors listed in Annex I to the EU ETS Directive.

− Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): activities supporting the construction and operation of projects focused on the environmentally safe capture and geological storage of CO2 (CCS).

− Innovative Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Technologies: activities supporting the construction and operation of innovative renewable energy and energy storage technologies.