Carolina Bedocchi is a Researcher in Industrial Transformation at ECCO, the Italian Climate Change Think Tank. Her work focuses on the decarbonisation of industry, with particular attention to electrification, energy costs and the policy conditions needed to support the transition of energy-intensive sectors. She has authored research for ECCO on the electrification of industrial heat in Italy and is part of ECCO’s industry and trade team.
Decarbonisation can strengthen the EU’s industrial base, but only if Brussels treats energy costs, scrap, trade defence and security as parts of the same challenge. A commentary by Carolina Bedocchi, and Davide Panzeri