Left of Trump
Trump’s win is not due to his merit, but to the demerits of those who lost. After many decades of massive (neoliberal) development in almost all of the Western world - let me include Central and Eastern Europe therein, after [...]
METHANE PODCAST: Episode 6: Mitigation: How Do You Solve a Problem like Methane?
So if methane is this big a problem, what tools do we have, and are we using, to solve it? The first global agreement that methane was a problem came in the form of the Global Methane Pledge announced at [...]
Carpathian Day. Europe must see mountain communities
Today we are celebrating Carpathian Day. As the new European Commission is in the making, we would draw the attention of the Brussels’ politicians and bureaucrats that mountains are not merely support for ski slopes, but a home for vibrant [...]
METHANE PODCAST: Episode 5: Is Natural Gas Clean or Are We Being Gaslit?
Natural gas is the ideal bridge fuel to support the global energy transition, or so the story goes. But what about methane emissions? Environmentalists want us to throw it on the pile of the other fossil fuels and doom it [...]
Ukraine: 2Celsius Participates in Study Tour to Promote Green and Inclusive Agricultural Policy in the Mountains
Transcarpathia, August 2024. 2Celsius is proud to have participated - represented by social researcher Adela Fofiu, in a study tour within the frame of the project “Green and Inclusive Agricultural Policy – Steps Towards”, lead by the Information Center “Green [...]
2C and the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS)
2Celsius has participated in the first General Assembly of the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS) held in Brussels, the 11th and 12th of June 2024. Our reps took part in two working groups: energy & rare materials and environmental transparency. [...]
METHANE PODCAST. Episode 4: Unravelling nature’s methane: The threat of methane climate feedbacks
Manmade methane emissions pose a potent threat to the climate, but they aren’t emitted into a vacuum. They feed into the earth’s existing complex cycle of methane, and as much as half the methane that reaches the atmosphere every year [...]
2Celsius, delegate in the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF)
On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF), our organisation, 2Celsius, with its president Raul Cazan as representative, has been selected as an EaP CSF delegate for the 2024-2026 cycle. The decision of [...]
METHANE PODCAST. Episode 3: Methane Detectives: Making the Invisible Visible
In this episode, we introduce our listeners to some of the world’s methane hunters, environmental detectives who use cutting-edge technology to detect and quantify methane emissions, making an invisible gas, visible. We embark on a methane hunting expedition of our [...]
METHANE PODCAST: Episode 2: So, Where’s It All Coming From?
In this second episode of our podcast, we delve into the complex world of methane emission sources. Join us as we look at the five main sectors that emit methane, unpack how the main ingredient of natural gas is [...]