Environmental NGOs sent letters to energy ministers of all 27 EU member states today objecting to continued promotion of burning trees and other forest biomass for renewable energy. Ministers will be meeting for an “Informal Energy and Transport Ministerial Meeting” [...]
The transition to electric vehicles will have a serious impact on the labor market, but also on the car market throughout Europe. Romania, in the absence of adaptation plans to the new environmental and industrial realities, will suffer more than [...]
Romania currently has four routes of rails with Ukraine, but none of them is fully operational! In the early hot days of war, hundreds of thousands of refugees were fleeing Ukraine, and queues of cars at border crossing points with [...]
Why are taxonomy and natural gas such a great scandal? We tried a fact-based approach to see what the sustainable solutions are and how harmful is the Delegated Act for Sustainable Finance. Earlier, 2Celsius contacted professor Ilaria Conti from the [...]
Andris Piebalgs is a former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II), and currently with the prestigious Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) in Fiesole, Italy. For what we were interested in this dialogue, [...]
Passenger cars and light commercial vehicles are responsible for 15% of all Europe’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and are the single largest source of toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, which cuts short the lives of over 40,000 Europeans every year.[1] Following [...]
Julian Popov, ex-minister of environment of Bulgaria is our guest today. He is an expert on low carbon economy and energy security in South East Europe. He is a European Climate Foundation (ECF) Fellow, Chairman at Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE), Energy [...]
Dr. Roland Kupers is an advisor to the United Nations Environment Program on methane. He made for 2Celsius two short presentations. One to introduce the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) and one specific program that we have set up, an [...]
2Celsius launched the report Regulating Methane Emissions: From Weak Commitments to Strong Implementation, which presents the shortcomings of the European Methane Regulation, but also assesses the situation in Romania, the second largest EU gas producer. Study: Methane regulation. Moving [...]
Ilaria Conti is Head of Gas at the Florence School of Regulation. Her main fields of expertise concern EU institutional relations and EU electricity and gas regulation. She spent about 9 years in Brussels, working for the the Permanent Representation [...]