News item | 30-06-2025 | 18:04
The cabinet is continuing the customized approach for making Dutch industry more sustainable. In a progress letter sent to the Lower House today, the government takes stock of the state of affairs and outlines the course for the coming period. The tailor -made approach remains a priority for making large industrial emotors, especially now with the economic and geopolitical challenges.
Valuable results, but sometimes complex execution
Since 2022, the government has been working intensively with companies to accelerate sustainable investments and to improve the living environment. The focus is on the largest industrial emotors of CO₂. They are challenged to make it more sustainable and faster than legally required, with extra attention to reducing nitrogen. The plans must be concrete and feasible.
The customized approach has already yielded a lot, but the implementation is sometimes complex and time -consuming. The cabinet therefore opts for realism: the deployment will concentrate on companies with ambitious, concrete and feasible plans that ensure extra CO₂ reduction towards 2030 in the near future.
Results so far
To date, thirteen companies have signed a declaration of intent (Expression of Principles). With companies such as Tata Steel Nederland, Anqore, Alco Energy Rotterdam, Zeeland Refinery and possibly OCI, the next step is being worked on: the Joint Letter of Intent (Jloi). A Jloi has been signed with Cosun, and with Nobian a binding customization appointment was reached first.
Not all companies can already fully convert their ambitions into concrete projects, for example due to challenging market conditions or uncertainty about preconditions.
Progress per company
The companies are located in different phases of the customized process. Some examples:
- Nobian was the first to conclude a binding appointment to accelerate his climate objectives with ten years to almost 0 CO2 emissions in 2030.
- Yara has received a customized subsidy for a CCS project that leads less CO2 emissions per year from 2026 to 0.8 Mton.
- For the plans of Anqore to greatly reduce the emissions of laughing gas, a request for advice was recently submitted to the Custom Agreements Advisory Committee for Sustainable Industry.
- Tata Steel Nederland is working with the government on the elaboration of the green steel plan.
- DOW worked on plans with considerable CO₂ reduction, but due to legal barriers and deteriorated market conditions, the process is currently stopping.
Minister Sophie Hermans (climate and green growth): “The sustainability of our industry is and remains a strategic priority. In an uncertain world, we want an industry that is competitive and more sustainable. The customized approach offers realistic, tailor -made solutions that can make companies green investments. With companies that have concrete and feasible plans for that. Complex, sustainability projects.
State Secretary Thierry Aartsen (Public Transport and the Environment): “With the tailor-made approach we stimulate companies in the Netherlands to make it more sustainable, we ensure the climate and we are working on a healthy balance between industry, local residents and the environment. Important in this way we make industry future-proof, with the Dutch industry with this and one-to-ethnicanic-lanes-to-dwonends. living environment around the industry further improved. “
Focus on realism and long term
Not all companies can already realize their climate ambitions before 2030, for example due to market conditions, international competition or legal obstacles. The current customized approach currently offers no solution for these companies. However, they are not excluded: we continue to talk to these companies to see if we can support complex projects that contribute to climate neutrality in the long term.
Minders of the Netherlands remain the only route for Dutch industry to stay future -proof and competitive within Europe. That is why the government continues to focus on CO₂ reduction, a reduction in nitrogen emissions, innovation and an attractive investment climate.