2050 ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FOR BELGIUM ?SEPT 2024Elia predicts that electricity consumption in Belgium will at least double by 2050, without the current generating fleet being able to cover more than half of the demand. In the absence of new political decisions,...

EUROPEAN CITY FACILITY : 7TH AND FINAL CALL FOR PROJECTSSEPT 2024Dear Municipalities, Dear POLLEC coordinators, on your marks, get set, participate in the 7th EUCF call for projects. The call will open on October 15 and close on December 18. This two-month deadline is...

AN AMBITIOUS AGREEMENT FOR WALLONIAJULY 2024MR and Les Engagés have just finalised their Walloon Regional Policy Declaration 2024-2029. The AZUR coalition has high ambitions in terms of industrial policy, low-carbon economic transition and the circular economy....

ELECTIONS ON JUNE 9, 2024: THE DAY AFTERMay 2024Many of you responded to our invitation, and we thank you. The elections have shown that a majority of the population, at all levels of power, want centre-right governments. Many of you have expressed concern about the...

AN INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE FOR THE UNION'S ENERGY INDEPENDENCEMAY 2024Inaugural meeting in Brussels of the General Assembly of the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). With the support of the European Union, the major players in the sector are...

A YELPING WALLONIAMAY 2024Wallonia aims for a "Hydrogen Valley" connected with other valleys on an international scale.  As part of the 2024 Programming of the Walloon Kyoto Fund, the Walloon Region adopted on May 23, 2024, a call for projects worth 25 million euros...

DUTY OF CAREMay 2024On 24 May 2024, the Council adopted the Directive on companies' duty of care with regard to sustainability. This is the final stage in the decision-making process. The directive introduces obligations for large companies regarding the negative...

BELGIUM REMAINS RECYCLING CHAMPIONAPRIL 2024According to a report by Plastics Europe, in 2022 Belgium will still be the recycling champion, with a recycling rate of 39%, well above the European average of 27%.

FOR BIODEGRADABLE AND RECYCLABLE PLASTICSMarch 2024Plastics are omnipresent in our lives and their consumption is expected to more than double by 2060. The G7 countries have pledged to reduce plastic pollution to zero by 2040. Among the solutions being considered are...

EUROPEAN CITY FACILITY: 6TH CALL FOR PROJECTSJanuary 2024Municipalities and local authorities in the European Union are invited to apply for a grant of EUR 60,000 to support their sustainable energy investment concept. 75 projects will be selected. There is every...

A QUICK REMINDERNovember 2023The rules contained in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on reporting social and environmental information come into force on 1 January 2024 for listed large companies and SMEs.

SME ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE FINANCESEPTEMBER 2023According to a survey carried out by Eurochambres, almost 60% of SMEs surveyed are investing in their sustainable transition, but obtaining sufficient finance remains a major obstacle. The capacity of banks to provide...

ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHOTOVOLTAIC PARKS IS BEING PLANNED IN THE PERLONJOUR QUARRYaugust 202312500 photovoltaic panels, equivalent to four football pitches, are due to be installed by 2024 in the Perlonjour quarry in Soignies. Local residents will be able to...

WALLONIA HAS FINALLY ADOPTED ITS DECREE ALLOWING THE CREATION OF ENERGY COMMUNITIESMarch 2023Wallonia has taken an important step, after Brussels, in promoting renewable energies by adopting the beginnings of a legal framework. The energy community will enable...

LAUNCH OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF RECUMOfeb 2023  From 2026 onwards, the nuclear research centre SCK CEN will transform radioactive residues into low-enriched uranium and will purify them in its RECUMO facility. These residues resulting from the production of medical...

SME ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE FINANCEfebruary 2022Energy communities are on everyone's lips, and some see them as a solution to the current energy crisis. We can rejoice to see Wallonia and Brussels announce an action plan for their development. It remains to be seen when...

WALLONIA IS LAUNCHING TWO PROJECTS TO PRODUCE GREEN HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASSJanuary 2022The H2-Sera project and the Hydrogène vert Hainaut project both aim to produce hydrogen from renewable energy sources, in particular solar and wind power. Green hydrogen is a clean...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROPOSE REVIEWING OUR CLIMATE AMBITIONSJuly 2021In order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the Commission proposes in particular to increase the share of renewable energies in energy consumption to at least 40%. This ambitious target will...

CALL FOR PROJECTS IN WALLONIA TO DEVELOP ENERGY COMMUNITIES. SPREAD THE WORD !May 2024As part of the Recovery Plan for Wallonia, a call for projects with a budget of €10 million will be launched to support the creation of renewable energy communities (RECs) and the...

SIGNING OF A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE TOWN OF PIROT IN SERBIAApril 2021After several fruitful discussions with the national authorities on the European Union's policy on waste recycling and the circular economy, Altapika visited the town of Pirot, where it...

INAUGURATION OF A NEW HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION IN ANSEREMMEFebruary 2021Wallonia is continuing to green its electricity production methods with this new power station, which is expected to produce almost 7000000 kilowatt hours per year, equivalent to the annual...

THE EUROPEAN UNION ADOPTS A 2030 CLIMATE AND ENERGY PACKAGE.July 2020The European Union has adopted the legislative measures needed to achieve the climate and energy objectives it has set itself for 2030, i.e. to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55%...

ELECTRONIC WASTE: A DEPOSIT WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLDJuly 2020A recent United Nations report points to a 21% increase in e-waste over 5 years. Last year alone, each human being generated on average more than 7 kilos of e-waste, a total equivalent to 350 cruise ships....

CLOSE THE GLASS LOOP!June 2020Europe's glass packaging companies are leading the way for municipalities in the circular economy by drawing up their own plan to achieve 90% recycled glass by 2030. These companies have 160 plants across Europe and provide 125,000 jobs....

TWENTY MILLION EUROPEAN HOUSEHOLDS LEFT OUT ?MAY 201517% of Europeans, i.e. 20 million households, mainly in rural areas, will not be able to do without liquid fuel for heating for a long time to come. However, alternative solutions to these fuels do exist: for...

ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY: A NECESSARY ALLIANCEfebruary 2020On February 11th and 12th, ALTAPIKA visited the Quebec Chair organized by the Royal Academy of Belgium, in collaboration with the Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles, and discovered the very engaging...

ALTAPIKA PARTNERS WITH THE MOROCCAN GOVERNMENT TO OPERATIONALISE AN IT WASTE CHANNELNovember 2019After several months of negotiations, ALTAPIKA has won the Moroccan contract to organise the IT waste management chain. The environment and sustainable development are at...

ENERGY LUNCH AT THE NORWEGIAN EMBASSY IN BRUSSELSJune 2019ALTAPIKA participated today in a lunch-debate organized by her Excellency Ambassador Ingrid SCHULERUD, in the presence of Norwegian and Belgian political representatives, on the theme of energy and the circular...

OFFSHORE: BELGIUM STILL IN THE WORLD'S TOP 5April 2019In less than ten years, Belgium has become one of the world's top five offshore wind power producers (alongside the UK, China, Germany and Denmark). On April 4, 2019, the Belgian federal parliament took a major...

A CAPACITY REMUNERATION MECHANISM TO MAKE BELGIUM EVEN GREENERApril 2019On April 4, the Belgian federal parliament also adopted an ambitious law to encourage the country's energy transition by increasing green energy production capacity, its storage and, on a...

EUROPEAN ENERGY SUMMIT IN ROMANIAApril 2019Informal Summit of Energy Ministers and Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting held on 2 April 2019 in Bucharest as part of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Altapika accompanied the Belgian...

GREEN GASMARCH 2019Forum on concrete alternatives leading to a sustainable, carbon-neutral future, organised in Brussels by Fluxys on 18 March 2019: «A carbon-neutral future and an affordable, sustainable and reliable energy system». FLUXYS presented its vision of the...

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECOVERY IN MOROCCOMarch 2019Workshop to present the results of the study on the development of the «National Strategy for Waste Reduction and Recovery (SNRVD)» organized in Rabat on 11 March 2019 by Mr Aziz RABBAH, Minister of Energy, of Mines and...

OCEAN PRESERVATIONfebruary 2019High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Ocean Conservation, organized in Brussels on 19 February 2019 by Belgian Ministers Marie Christine Marghem, in charge of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development and Philippe De Backer,...