European regional newsroom

• Europe is falling behind – high costs and complex regulations are driving industries and investments away.
• Regulatory reform is urgently needed – government and industry must work together to simplify rules, reduce regulatory burdens, and restore competitiveness.
• The EU needs to embrace a broader range of low-carbon solutions to deliver a fair, affordable energy transition.

• More plastic can be recycled with chemical recycling.
• The technology is complementary to mechanical recycling.
• Helps address plastic waste sent to landfills or incineration.

• Mass balance helps ensure chemically recycled plastic waste is accurately attributed.
• The method is central to a wider roll-out of chemical recycling.
• Our comprehensive mass balance approach includes working with independent certification system ISCC PLUS.

• Liquid fuels are projected to remain essential for decades to come.
• Renewable diesel offers fleets viable options for emissions reduction on a lifecycle basis.
• We market fuel additives and lower GHG-emission fuels around the globe.

• Too much plastic ends up as waste: chemical recycling could increase the amount of plastic that can be recycled.
• ExxonMobil already carries out chemical recycling at our Baytown facility in Texas in the U.S.
• We plan to expand our chemical recycling capacity globally.

• Chemical recycling is complementary to mechanical recycling.
• More plastic can be recycled using chemical recycling.
• Chemical recycling could help address plastic waste.

• The Sci-Tech Challenge encourages young people to tackle global problems like climate change.
• This year students worked on clean energy projects.
• More than 67,000 students have competed in the Sci-Tech Challenge since it launched in 2010.

Key takeaways:

• The shipping industry produces around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and our biofuels are helping reduce emissions in what is a hard-to-decarbonize sector.
• Biofuels – lower-emission fuels from renewable sources such as plant and waste biomass – are important to reducing emissions in the industry.
• In 2022 and 2023 we delivered very low sulphur fuel oil to ships in the Port of Singapore.

Key takeaways:

• Our European R&D hub is helping drive lower-emission alternatives, from recycling innovations to sustainable aviation fuel.
• Scientists at our European Technology Center (ETC) are helping create a new type of multi-layer plastic packaging, where more than 50% can be recycled.
• We’ve also developed a proprietary technology at the ETC– to make sustainable aviation fuel from renewable methanol.

Key takeaways:

• We’re developing a breakthrough emissions-reduction technology.
• Carbonate fuel cells could capture CO₂ more efficiently, cost-effectively.
• We’ll demonstrate this technology at our Rotterdam site starting in 2026.