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Jan 16, 2025 | 
bruegel.org | Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams |Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Giovanni Sgaravatti
Electrification is at the heart of the EU’s agenda as it works towards deep decarbonisation and economic competitiveness. However, electricity demand has remained stagnant, representing less than a quarter of final energy demand. To meet ambitious goals, the EU must electrify sectors like transport, heating, and industry. Key policies are under discussion, including the Electrification Action Plan and the proposed Electrification Bank to support industrial projects.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams |Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Giovanni Sgaravatti
The author is grateful for earlier comments on this draft to Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Stephen Gardner, Conall Heussaff,Philipp Jäger, Ben McWilliams, Lucio Pench, Simone Tagliapietra, Pierre Wunsch and Georg Zachmann. One consequence of a major reform of the European Union’s emissions trading system in 2023 is that energy-intensive industries (EIIs) will ultimately be exposed fully to carbon pricing.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams |Giovanni Sgaravatti
On 1 January 2025, a major contract governing the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine will end, with significant implications for remaining Russian gas exports to some European Union countries.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Giovanni Sgaravatti |Patrick Bolton
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Rebecca Christie invites Bruegel’s own Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi, as well as Jacob Werksman, Principal Adviser of European Commission’s DG Clima, to examine the EU’s global green agenda and the challenges of balancing decarbonisation, competitiveness, and strategic autonomy. They discuss how the EU’s green geoeconomic approach should support global decarbonisation efforts and strengthen the EU's strategic position.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Simone Tagliapietra |Giovanni Sgaravatti |Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams
This post-Brexit bilateral relationship is based on the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), signed by the EU and the UKin May 2021. It includes specific provisions on electricity and natural gas trade that have so far sustained cross-border energy flows in those commodities. However, the temporary nature of these trading arrangements weakens the business case for British and European companies to make clean energy investments.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Simone Tagliapietra |Cecilia Trasi |Giovanni Sgaravatti
Simone Tagliapietra, Cecilia Trasi and Giovanni Sgaravatti are all researchers at Bruegel. Over the last five years, the European Green Deal has generated a wave of unprecedented legislation, which will enable Europe to transform its economy — and it will have major international repercussions.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Giovanni Sgaravatti |Simone Tagliapietra |Michael Delgado |Yeric Garcia
The European Union has set ambitious climate targets and, to reach them, has rolled-out a wave of legislation. But despite this momentum, the pace of decarbonisation has not been fast enough. Your overriding challenge for the next five years is to accelerate EU decarbonisation in sectors such as buildings and transport, while addressing the social impacts of climate policy.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams |Ugnė Keliauskaitė |Giovanni Sgaravatti
Giovanni gave a testimony to the public hearing of the Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion (ECO) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on 18 July 2024. LanguageEnglishDatasetThis dataset aggregates daily data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
euractiv.it | Ben McWilliams |Giovanni Sgaravatti |Simone Tagliapietra |Ugnė Keliauskaitė
Gli edifici e i trasporti sono i due settori più importanti da decarbonizzare per raggiungere gli obiettivi climatici dell’UE per il 2030. Tuttavia, sono anche quelli che hanno un impatto più diretto sui cittadini dell’UE nella loro vita quotidiana, poiché la scelta di intraprendere una ristrutturazione energetica o di acquistare un nuovo veicolo elettrico è una decisione che comporta un costo significativo.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ben McWilliams |Giovanni Sgaravatti |Simone Tagliapietra |Ugnė Keliauskaitė
Environment8 hours agoThis New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You LiveScienceAlert - Tessa Koumoundouros • 8hAs extreme storms, floods, fires, droughts, cold snaps, and heat waves hit us harder and more often than ever, more than half of our planet is …Midtown Manhattan4 hours ago17 Years, $700 Million Wasted: The Stunning Collapse of New York’s Traffic MoonshotThe Wall Street Journal.
