[Opinion] #GreenTransition: Buildings decarbonisation can make or break the #EUGreenDeal, argue Ben McWilliams, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra & Ugne Keliauskaite | Euractiv euractiv.com/section/emissi…

Nice follow-up from Bruegel’s policy experts Ugne Keliauskaite, Giovanni Sgaravatti and Simone Tagliapietra: “Decarbonising buildings and transport cannot be left to carbon prices only, as this might end-up proving too expensive for final consumers, causing backlash” euractiv.com/section/emissi…

NEW Bruegel paper by Conall Heussaff and I that shows: - Electricity demand-supply imbalances can be costly - Who potentially compensates producers for low prices is an unresolved distributional question bruegel.org/sites/default/… 1/11

NEW🚨We just updated our European Clean Tech Tracker to include new data on clean tech trade, electrification trends, grids, EU-level clean tech subsidies and more. Here below a short thread with some of the main novelties in there. Bruegel bruegel.org/dataset/europe…

Tomorrow, the EU electricity market reform is entering into force. In our new paper, we argue that implementation should ensure that low electricity demand does not lead to much higher electricity tariffs for households.

Première journée de session du nouveau parlement européen à Strasbourg! Cette semaine sera cruciale pour organiser le travail législatif des cinq prochaines années.

📗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…