The Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry has issued a  tender by which it intends to conduct an analytical study of the competitiveness and climate change-related aspects of industry, technology and trade.

The successful bidder of the tender should focus on conducting sectoral approaches to promote international action on climate change. The idea is to evaluate international agreements to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases compared with the commitment of the European Union in this matter.

This way, the tender, which has been published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union of July 22nd 2009, by the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry would preferably consider action on specific productive sectors, and the focus will be on carbon leakage and subsequent negotiations with the United Nations summit on Climate Change to be held in early December in Copenhagen.

At this meeting the European Union will submit an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol and reaffirm their commitment to reduce its emissions by 20% of greenhouse gases by 2020.

The duration of the contract from its award will be 9 months. The financial threshold is estimated at 300 000 EUR. Deadline for submitting tenders or requests to participate is September 8th 2009.