After two energy shocks, some countries are finally acting. Austria fully funds boiler replacements for low-income households. Belgium & Finland are cutting taxes to make fossil-free heating cheaper than gas. Germany & Spain are rolling out flat-rate public transport passes. Find more measures👇

Home decarbonisation needs to move faster. Europe needs a clear policy that bundles all these fossil-free solutions for homes together. Not fragmented measures, not piecemeal fixes, but a proper package that makes home electrification simple. We call them “Independence kits” 🏡⚡️💪

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Electrification isn’t a “green lifestyle choice.” It’s a way to save €2,200 a year 💸 A new analysis shows switching to heat pumps and electric transport can cut bills fast across the EU. The barrier isn’t technology. It’s access to it 🧵

"Fight Iran energy shock with solar panels and heat pumps", the EU Commission said. Yes! We’ve been saying this every time energy prices hit the roof! It's about time we deliver. Europe needs independence kits to electrify every home. 👇 👇 👇 👇Here are a few examples 👇 👇 👇 👇

Picked this up at the library today. 2 chapters in and I LOVE it.

I love to pass by in front of Mr Schuman, in the morning . He is one of the fathers of the idea of the European Union. I sometimes wonder what he would think of what Europe is today

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This is how big oil companies try to silence the voices they do not like. Shame on #ENI

A new Environmental Investigation Agency report exposes a growing black market in highly polluting refrigerant gases (harmful greenhouse gases). This illicit trade poses a serious threat to both climate action and fair markets in Europe. #Fgases Full story > eia-international.org/news/organis...

Here is your daily reason to get off the hook of gas dependence. High levels of the carcinogen benzene have been discovered in the domestic gas supply for four cities in the UK by researchers. Highly concerning in UK, NL, IT. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

just opposite the EU Commission's building in Brussels, Europe's "unofficial government", for years, one could spot the beautiful mural on the left. "The Future is Europe". Now, there's an Amazon Ad. @ec.europa.eu nothing to say about this? When did symbolic action lose relevance?

🇪🇺 Independence kits for Europe! To achieve energy independence, we must scale and combine clean heat solutions where they’re most needed. As @davidesabbadin.bsky.social highlights, €78bn/year is missing to deliver this by 2050. This gap must be plugged and reflected in the next EU budget.

🛢️In a time when energy is being used as a weapon to undermine the policies and autonomy of entire economic regions such as the EU, empowering citizens to control their own heating and cooling should be a priority. 👉It’s also a measure that brings positive political momentum for legislators.

Another war. Another fossil shock. As violence escalates in the Middle East, civilians face devastating consequences. But the energy fallout is already hitting Europe. Gas prices up 50% in hours. This is what fossil fuel dependence looks like. 🧵

NEW | New technologies are unlocking the EU’s geothermal potential 🇪🇺 Across the EU, new geothermal tech could access 43GW of deployable geothermal capacity - replacing 42% of ALL coal and gas electricity generation. ember-energy.org/lat...

Last week I attended the European presentation of the World Nuclear Industry Report, a massive research that every year delivers some 600 pages of data and analysis on this industry. Outcomes are quite counter-intuitive, and one of the chapters that got my attention was the one about the USA.

Sometimes, oversimplifying concepts is good to bring the discussion back to the bare facts. This here is valid for Europe, but it's also valid for any other economy strongly dependent on energy imports, increasingly annoyed by wannabe dictators who used to be your friend. Just saying.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

introducing what seems the obvious to me: we need a portfolio or renewable and efficiency technologies, pivoting on heat pumps, to curb energy costs and increase energy independence. My OpEd and podcast here 👇

The EU’s reaction to the Venezuelan coup is so weak that it amounts to: “Take what you want; we will not lift a finger". The EU is too divided to agree on any foreign policy, and its political, economic, and geographical space is now up for grabs. Greenland might change its flag in months.

❄️ Cooling is the next big climate win nobody told you about New EU rules are pushing supermarkets and big retailers to switch from harmful F-gases to cleaner, climate-friendly refrigerants. Our expert @davidesabbadin.bsky.social breaks down what’s happening in the sector, and why it matters. 👇👇👇

If there ever was need to prove nonsense, going at war with a latin country on the account of drug wars and at the same time pardoning the head of a narcostate is there to serve as solid proof. All of it being the head of the largest army in the world is just incredibly close to a nightmare.

🍀🇪🇺Today at the #CleanTechForEuropeSummit I underlined a simple truth: Europe cannot lead the green transition with an incomplete Single Market. We still face bottlenecks that slow down investment, innovation and scale-up. 1/2

We’re hiring! The EEB is looking for a (Senior) Policy Officer for Industrial Decarbonisation (CBAM) to join our Zero Pollution Industry team in Brussels. 🟢 Full-time 1-year contract. 💶 Salary from €3,041 or €3,716. 🗓️ Deadline 25 Nov 2025. 👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/TYqhb

The perfect plan Now, read this. This is no conspiracy theory; it is happening now. (while civil society is threatened in many other ways in the USA, too) euobserver.com/eu-political...

Our @davidesabbadin.bsky.social was at the European Heat Pump Summit 2025, catching the latest trends and policies pushing the heating transition in Europe. More insights here 👇 sway.cloud.microsoft/OObBei6EQ8kJ...

Is China destined to be monopolist for PV production? An interesting read: ‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’ – pv magazine International share.google/VZ2YyyzgLfUT...

🚨 The EU Commission caves to pressure to weaken ETS2! Flooding Europe’s new carbon market for 🚗&🏠 with more pollution permits won’t protect people, it’ll reward polluters. Worried about high carbon prices? Cut fossil demand now and use ETS2 cash to help citizens, not to buy time for fossil fuels.

A powerful way to discuss climate greenwashing with #youth: turn it into a game. Role-playing the roles of policymakers, CEOs, and activists reveals just how complex the fight is. And it empowers them to see through the green sheen and recognize real vs. bogus claims. #Climate #Greenwashing

Very interesting visit to a farm in #Leuven (Belgium) testing different types of AgriPhotovoltaic panels (producing cabbages) and groundbreaking tech producing H2 from the air with electricity from the sun. Modular, can work anywhere on earth. On the market in 2028. Future in the making.

Some good ideas on how to decarbonise homes in Europe without helping Trump or Putin.

Green products: it's time for supermarkets to step up! Retailers must make products with the #EUEcolabel (and equivalent labels) available, visible and affordable – so the sustainable choice becomes the easy choice everywhere in Europe. Read our press release: eeb.org/cheaper-but-... @beuc.eu

⚠️ Worried about data centres’ energy & water use? Don’t forget the chemicals! Data centres use F-gases is their cooling systems - potent greenhouse gases that also leak #ForeverChemicals into air, water & soil. Europe must build its AI boom on renewable energy + safe, natural refrigerants 🌿

This is useful both in the EU and the US. 🌲Burning wood is clean, green and climate neutral, right? 🫢Nope. wrong. It's renewable, but it is far from being climate-neutral, and it is already the #1 source of air pollution in Europe. Bummer. (1/2)

Air pollution is linked directly to Lewy body dementia +Alzheimer’s PM 2.5 is found to be the culprit #CleanTheAir Monitor IAQ Ventilate filter www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The more I read of the incredible reluctance of the European Automotive industry to move forward with electrification plans, the more it seems to me a suicidal rant. And all I can think of is... well. read below 😜 🎠🛞 #realfakes #automotive #climatecrisis #AI

Five good examples from Europe of how #renewables can help #rural #communities #wind #windenergy #solar meta.eeb.org/2025/08/25/f...

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The Commission proposal for the next long-term EU budget aka MFF just dropped. Its overall volume increases very moderately, but the proposal contains sweeping changes to the way the EU spends money and to budget's priorities. Here is my first quick take:

🚨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔-𝐔𝐒 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠. At its core is a €700 billion pledge to import U.S. fossil fuels and nuclear energy over the next three years - fundamentally incompatible with the EU’s 2030 climate targets.

"It's impossible that heat pumps become a mainstream techno...oh wait.." #decarbonization #heating #cooling

Exxon spending tens of thousands of euro per week to sponsor Politico's 'sustainability' and the widely read (free) 'playbook' newsletters, pushing for more focus on plastic *recycling* instead of reducing plastic production For oil & gas companies, plastic is a way to keep drilling and polluting

📈 What stands in the way of more renewable energy? 🤫 Spoiler: It’s not nature protection laws. The real barriers? Staff shortages, rushed public engagement, and weak grid connections.

How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen? Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Introducing serious filters in wood stoves is a win-win-win measure: 🎯It improves indoor and outdoor air quality, improving comfort and saving lives. 🎯It cuts on climate emissions, as these local emissions are ALSO serious climate pollutants 🎯It cuts on societal health costs A short read👇

Today, the EU Commission unveiled the long-awaited roadmap to end EU imports of Russian fossil fuels: a necessary step for peace, energy security and climate targets. Here's why it matters and our reaction 👇🧵 #EnergySky #EnviroSky

The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈 This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible. Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...