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*** REGISTER NOW *** for our online panel discussion on Friday 24th March 09:30-10:45 CET, “Electricity Market Design: how can reforms accelerate the transition and help cut energy prices?” Our panellists are Catharina Sikow-Magny, Director, DG ENER; Wanda Buk, Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs, PGE; Leonardo Meeus, Director of the Florence School of Regulation; Jérôme Le Page, […]
While energy is the common foundation of Europe’s economy, EU member states have strikingly different energy policies. In the context of compounding security, economic, and environmental crises, calls to surmount the tensions surrounding energy are increasing. We spoke to economist Helen Thompson about the fault lines exposed by the energy crisis, government responses to our present disorder, and prospects for greater European unity.
The starting point for Transition is that the future with less oil, and producing less carbon emissions, could be preferable to today.
The energy transition is about more than switching power carriers. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy generation is perhaps the most significant change the world will make in its attempts to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Still, it is not as simple as a straight swap. It requires a complete overhaul of how we live and interact with our world. This is where energy efficiency and the efficient use of energy comes in
On Watt Matters this week, Monica Morawiecka from the Regulatory Assistance Project and Julian Popov, a fellow of the European Climate Foundation, discuss what is required to make eastern Europe's energy transition a reality
McKinsey argues that this costs will be covered by energy savings from the transition: the cost of getting to net zero is zero.
The EEA report identifies several key building blocks for improving cities’ sustainability, including improving the quality of the local environment, building adaptive capacity, ensuring enough public and natural areas, switching to renewable energy, and improving energy and resource efficiency. Moreover, cities should improve the quality of the built environment, including homes, and ensure social justice and inclusive participation in decision-making. While all cities are both complex and different from each other, the report identifies some shared key factors for improving their sustainability. Local culture, knowledge and quality of data can either enable or slow down improvements, and the same is true for new technology, governance, and financial management.
Recently, the European Investment Bank released the results of a survey it conducted among EU member states, as well as China and the US. The survey is about climate change and it explores attitudes towards government action, transition fuel and support for more regulation, as well as some additional consumer measures.
The big takeaway from the survey is that a majority of Europeans think that climate change is the biggest challenge for humanity in the 21st century and that their particular country will fail to meet the goals set out by the Paris Agreement.
Les discussions sur la transition énergétique se terminent souvent sur le constat que la sobriété est importante. L’ennui, c’est que ce concept n’est pas défini. Quel serait un mode de vie compatible avec les limites planétaires? Faut-il retourner à une civilisation purement agraire? Ou à l’âge de pierre? Une étude publiée en 2020 s’est intéressée à la question de l’énergie nécessaire au maintien d’un mode de vie « décent ». Leur conclusion : il est aujourd’hui possible d’avoir des frigos et des téléphones tout en consommant moins d’énergie que des paysans du XIXe siècle.
The City of Zagreb has prepared a program to support the installation of solar panels on the roofs of public buildings, privately-owned single-family homes and multi-apartment buildings, and companies in order to increase the installed capacity from the current 700 kilowatts (kW) to 50 megawatts (MW) by 2024. The capital of Croatia will provide grants for the preparation of projects for the installation of solar photovoltaic panels.
At September’s UN General Assembly, Xi Jinping pledged to stop all Chinese investment in coal plant projects abroad. The announcement comes against the backdrop of a leadership dry spell from the United States, the EU, and COP26 host the UK. What does this 50-billion-dollar divestment mean for climate diplomacy? Amélie Canonne and Nicolas Haeringer assess the magnitude of China’s move and outline an alternative, climate justice approach to the energy transition.
Clean energy policies are not to blame for recent spikes in gas and electricity prices, and the soaring prices should not derail Europe's green transition, International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol said on Monday (27 September).
EESIP, the European Energy Social Innovation Platform, is designed with one purpose in mind: to empower and support professionals in the renewable energy sector specifically working on social innovation and citizen engagement.
This platform enables professionals not only to gather information and knowledge, but also to share good practices and new resources and work collaboratively.
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My aim is not to discourage people working toward an energy transition, but to insist that we develop a realistic plan for energy descent, rather than insisting on foolish dreams of eternal consumer abundance by means other than fossil fuels.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has announced that his country has an upgraded sustainability transition goal, being carbon-neutral five years earlier than the Green Deal deadline of 2050. His..
While the EU is planning to decarbonise buildings across the bloc to advance the green transition, local authorities are calling for more support to face a shortage of skilled workers to design and implement decarbonisation projects.
The latest IPCC report and Ukraine crisis show the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels, investing in renewables and developing sustainable agriculture. Mahmoud Mohieldin, the Egyptian UN Climate Change high-level champion and the UN special envoy on financing the 2030 sustainable development agenda writes on the Climate Change News website about some of his views…
Modelling tools are becoming increasingly important to policy makers for creating transition pathways. More detail is required as the pace of change accelerates. Yet complexity is increasing as new technologies and solutions come online. And those models are needed at the local level, not just the national and global. It’s why the EU is funding, […]
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
The European Commission proposed a "social climate fund" to protect vulnerable people from changes brought by the energy transition. Still, it is not fit for purpose, according to researchers and policymakers in the European Parliament.
The only way to fix our problems is to change our lifestyle. We need to buy less stuff, travel fewer miles, consume less resources, live in smaller homes (or share your larger home with more people). We need to live less complicated lifestyles including little or no social media. We can plant a garden, eat more plant based, locally produced food. We can slow cook more meals (including vegetarian and vegan options). We can recycle our clothes and household goods by giving them to stores such as Goodwill. We can enjoy the simple but rewarding experience of sharing a meal with friends and family.
Before describing possible features of a future ecosocialism, it is worthwhile to consider why such a system is even needed. Why can’t the problems that ecosocialism would solve also be remedied within the current global capitalist system? Part I of this essay addresses that question by summarizing recent scientific reports on the state of the climate and extent of the ecological crisis; reviewing available methods and technologies that could be used to address the climate and ecological crises; and briefly describing capitalism’s structural inability to provide solutions at the scale of the crises. Part II then takes up the subject of the title, ecosocialism, along with strategies to move in that direction.
Ce document de 48 pages présente le scénario négaWatt 2017-2050, depuis les points forts de ce nouveau scénario jusqu’à ses impacts environnementaux et socio-économiques, en passant par sa méthodologie et l’explication de son contenu sur la demande et l’offre d’énergie.
Selon les deux économistes Marie Defay et Edouard Dequeker et l’expert en prospective Julien Villalongue, il n’y a pas de transition écologique sans une révolution dans l’aménagement des territoires, observent-ils, dans une tribune au « Monde ».
Birgit Hansen is the mayor of Frederikshavn, Denmark and is recognised for her role in the city’s ambitious climate plan that will reduce its CO2 emissions by over 90% by 2050. Created in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the C40 Cities Climate Action Planning Framework, the plan is already successfully mobilising the community to achieve a zero carbon society.
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