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📗Making buildings greener: EU decarbonisation plans How can the EU bridge the investment gap for energy renovations to meet climate targets? Rebecca Christie discusses with Giovanni Sgaravatti, Michael Pahle Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung PIK & Marion Santini RAP. Listen now bruegel.org/podcast/making…

🎙 Making buildings greener: EU decarbonisation plans Listen to the full episode with Rebecca Christie, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Michael Pahle Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung PIK & Marion Santini RAP⬇️ bruegel.org/podcast/making…

The data is in 📈 Here’s what happened in EU electricity in the first six months of 2024 🇪🇺 🧵1/9

Fossil fuels generated 17% less in H1-2024 than in H1-2023. A majority of this fall came from only a few Member States, with Germany seeing the largest drop. 5/9

.Bruegel EU gas import tracker: -weekly EU imports decreased, driven by lower LNG and NO imports; -pipeline imports from Russia exceed 2023 level due to record flows via Turkstream; -reverse flows into UA are up; -EU gas storage at 85% capacity. bruegel.org/dataset/europe…

When Haussmann transformed Paris into the city it is today, it involved the planting of 600,000 trees — and building wide boulevards to accommodate them. There's a reason history's greatest city planners placed such heavy emphasis on street trees...

In Q2 2024, Russia overtook the USA in terms of gas imports for the first time since Q4 2022; Norway is the key source of gas imports to the EU Source: Bruegel based on ENTSOG, GIE and Bloomberg, via Georg Zachmann Ugne Keliauskaite Giovanni Sgaravatti Ben McWilliams

📣Next week—Aviation & shipping have broad fossil fuel tax exemptions, how can gov'ts reform subsidies to support the energy transition? On Sept. 17 don't miss this event featuring speakers from Bruegel, Ministerie van Klimaat en Groene Groei, UCL Energy Institute, & IISD. Register: iisd.org/events/pricing…

Our latest op-ed in POLITICOEurope makes the case for why the European Green Deal must focus on external decarbonization efforts. Without it, we risk undermining domestic and global climate targets. With Simone Tagliapietra and Giovanni Sgaravatti politico.eu/article/europe…

[Opinion] #EUpolitics & #Climate: The European #GreenDeal must go global, by Simone Tagliapietra, Cecilia Trasi and Giovanni Sgaravatti | Politico politico.eu/article/europe…

As the proposed new structure of the European Commission puts, both, #competition and #transition policy in the hands of Teresa Ribera, I thought to re-share our conceptual paper on how the two areas interplay.

🆕Bruegel: Europe’s 2040 climate target faces four critical risks. How can they be managed?🌍 With PRISMA project colleagues: Gunnar Luderer, Robert Pietzcker, @JohannesEmm, Rupert Way, Renato Rodrigues and Severin Reissl. bruegel.org/policy-brief/e…

Shocking to see China so far ahead the EU and the US in electrification rate, especially as EVs don't seem to be the main driving factor. A high electrification rate means huge potential for rapid emissions cuts as China moves away from coal power generation. #PowerBarometer24

.Bruegel EU gas import tracker: - total EU gas imports from Russia for the second quarter in the row exceeded LNG imports from the US; - weekly EU gas imports are below seasonal levels; - EU gas storage is 94% full. bruegel.org/dataset/europe…

Free carbon allowances for EU industrial companies are being phased out, but inconsistencies remain. Read the analysis by Giovanni Sgaravatti. bruegel.org/analysis/how-f…

Today, utility-scale batteries paired with solar PV are already competitive with new coal plants in some countries like India In just the next few years, batteries + solar will be cheaper than new natural gas plants in the US & new coal in China 👉 iea.li/3WN4gWX

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

As President Reagan once said, “Peace is not just the absence of war.” We’re talking about just and lasting peace—freedom, justice, and human rights for everyone. A ceasefire won’t work with Putin. He has broken ceasefires 25 times over the last ten years. A real peace is the

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.