📊 UPDATED: European natural gas demand tracker ✨ With data now updated to July 2026 🔗 Explore the dataset here: buff.ly/4dzHgNT 🖋️ Compiled by @mariejuge.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social #EconSky
Georg Zachmann
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senior fellow - energy & climate policy - @bruegel_org Scientific Lead - GreenDealUkraїna - @HZBde
📑The discussion will draw on @gzachmann.bsky.social and Annabelle Weisser's Policy Brief, 'International carbon trading: a strategic lever to boost global decarbonisation'. 📖 Read the Policy Brief now: buff.ly/2BPIPvH #EconSky
International carbon trading: a strategic lever to boost global decarbonisation
International carbon credits can support the EU’s 2040 target if buyers’ club rules and leverage ensure real mitigation gains abroad
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The EU will allow up to 5% of its 2040 emissions target to be met via international carbon credits. This cannot just be a cheap compliance loophole. It must be a strategic lever to drive global decarbonisation. New @bruegel.org brief with Annabelle Weisser. 🧵 1/10
Very perspicacious analysis by @nkurmayer.bsky.social, who knows a thing or two about the nexus of energy and climate policy.
Euractiv@euractiv.com · 5d agoMove over climate action, adaptation is all the rage now
DATA QUESTION: I found great open hydrologic data on Switzerland. Figure shows the current historic low levels at the last Rhone station in CH www.hydrodaten.admin.ch/en/seen-und-... But for France I can only get 30days data for the hubeau.eaufrance.fr stations - hence it is hard to compare. 1/2
All 1850 MW of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant (red) could be shut down entirely for 1st time due to insufficient cooling water from Danube River. unn.ua/en/news/an-e... 1/4
Bei Europas Energiesouveränität geht es weniger darum, von wem wir unser Öl/Gas kaufen, sondern kurzfristig um „Ersetzbarkeit“ und mittelfristig um Geschwindigkeit der Elektrifizierung. Alexander Sicheneder und ich haben für die @bpb.de ein paar Thesen aufgeschrieben: 🧵👇 www.bpb.de/themen/wirts...
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Ukraine has disabled nearly half of Russia’s oil refining capacity through targeted operations, according to the Financial Times. FT analysis estimates that refineries struck by Ukrainian drones have lost around 45% of their nominal production capacity. #Ukraine
Bei Europas Energiesouveränität geht es weniger darum, von wem wir unser Öl/Gas kaufen, sondern kurzfristig um „Ersetzbarkeit“ und mittelfristig um Geschwindigkeit der Elektrifizierung. Alexander Sicheneder und ich haben für die @bpb.de ein paar Thesen aufgeschrieben: 🧵👇 www.bpb.de/themen/wirts...
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1/ ⚡️↪️🖥️ German Energy Transition Monitor: Momentum Is Still Insufficient for the Expansion of Renewables, Electrification, and Storage www.diw.de/documents/pu...
Yesterday, CNBC interviewed me live on the European wildfires and I highlighted how climate related risks are increasing and how investing into slowing climate change helps reduce related macrofiscal risk. Unfortunately, 'climate' was not mentioned once in the article: www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/f...
Wildfires burn nearly 300,000 acres in France and Spain as heat wave looms
Temperatures in France are expected to rise to 95 degrees Fahrenheit this week, as firefighters battle the ongoing wildfire, which has affected parts of Spain.
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I missed this: acc. to Politico Turkey last week seems to have blocked the $27bn modernisation/extension of the NATO fuel pipeline system. I.e. there remains only limited possibility to bring fuel to the Eastern flank if the Baltic (and Adriatic) ports are blocked. www.politico.eu/article/turk...
Climate impacts will become a structural macro-fiscal problem. With low private insurance, EU governments are sleepwalking into becoming disaster insurers of last resort. Our @bruegel.org Policy Brief on mitigating rising fiscal costs of climate disasters. 🔗 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief... 🧵1/10
Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters
Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance
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7/10: We provide case studies from climate events in the EU which illustrate the potential size of these damages. (really great work by @keliauskaite.bsky.social and M-S Lappe).
The EU will allow up to 5% of its 2040 emissions target to be met via international carbon credits. This cannot just be a cheap compliance loophole. It must be a strategic lever to drive global decarbonisation. New @bruegel.org brief with Annabelle Weisser. 🧵 1/10
🇷🇺🇬🇪 NEW | FACT SHEET: Georgia's Black Sea ports of Kulevi & Batumi exported EUR 1.2bn of fuels suspected to contain Russian oil to sanctioning countries 🏛️ Sanctions must address Russian-supplied oil hubs energyandcleanair.org/fact-sheet-georgian-ports-suspected-of-violating-sanctions-on-russian-oil
Am Montag haben wir bei der @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social zwei hochkarätige Expert:innen zu Gast. Oksana Huss und @golod.bsky.social sprechen über die politischen Entwicklungen in der Ukraine. Die Online-Veranstaltung ist exklusiv für unsere Mitglieder. Werdet auch Mitglied!
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Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft - Für unsere und eure Freiheit!@de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social · 2w agoMitte Juli hat die Werchowna Rada eine neue Regierung bestätigt - zwei Ministerien blieben unbesetzt: Verteidigung und Äußeres. Der Kabinettsumbau löste Proteste aus. Darüber sprechen wir beim nächsten DUG im Dialog mit @golod.bsky.social, @oksanahuss.bsky.social Moderation: @efdavies.bsky.social
„Die Probleme der deutschen Wirtschaft haben im Wesentlichen nichts mit dem Klimaschutz zu tun. Und für mich steht Klimaschutz dem Wirtschaftswachstum nicht im Wege.“ Interview PIK-Direktor Ottmar #Edenhofer @faznet.bsky.social. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... (€)
Ottmar Edenhofer: Warum der Klimaschutz nicht der Wirtschaft schadet
Sollte man den Klimaschutz zurückfahren, um die Wirtschaft zu stärken? Was hat Fridays for Future falsch gemacht – und was die CDU? Ein Gespräch mit dem Klimaökonomen Ottmar Edenhofer, einem der…
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Today we're launching PyPSA Labs, a new non-profit that offers development, maintenance, support and training for our open software Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA). Check out our services here: pypsalabs.org
PyPSA Labs - Sustaining Open-Source Energy System Modelling
PyPSA Labs is a non-profit organisation stewarding development, maintenance, support and training for the open-source energy system modelling framework PyPSA.
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Prompted by the renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz here our piece from only one month ago. The brief reopening during the ‘truce’ didn't fix the underlying 13 mb/d global shortfall. [Link to article: www.bruegel.org/analysis/europe-must-prepare-possible-oil-supply-crunch] 🧵 1/6
Market reaction to the European Commission's proposal on the ETS Review and Electrification Act on Friday was relatively muted. Seems like electricity companies were more positively surprised than other emission intensive companies.
Climate-driven farm decline: Projected change in agricultural productivity
Clean Energy Wire | CLEW@cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 3w agoInteractive map predicts climate-driven farm decline by end of century CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that forecasts, on a 10‑kilometre grid, how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100
Situation at Russian gas stations in the last 5 days and today: Moscow and St Petersburg are prioritized. It looks like the situation is improving, but I checked several cities in detail, and I think the increasing availability of fuel has a different reason: Higher prices.
Prompted by the renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz here our piece from only one month ago. The brief reopening during the ‘truce’ didn't fix the underlying 13 mb/d global shortfall. [Link to article: www.bruegel.org/analysis/europe-must-prepare-possible-oil-supply-crunch] 🧵 1/6
Very cool tracker.
Georg Zachmann@gzachmann.bsky.social · 3w agoWe have something new for you! Today we launched the Bruegel ETS Tracker. Based on the great work by Jan Abrell you can now easily access: - emissions by sector, location, installation, time - allocation - auction revenues - carbon prices ets.bruegel.org [feedback more than welcome]
Is there already a macro-paper out that quantitatively assesses if oil price spikes get more muted as the US turned from an oil importing country (oil-price↑ -> $↓ -> oil-price↑) to an oil exporting country (oil-price↑ -> $↑ -> oil-price↓)?
We have something new for you! Today we launched the Bruegel ETS Tracker. Based on the great work by Jan Abrell you can now easily access: - emissions by sector, location, installation, time - allocation - auction revenues - carbon prices ets.bruegel.org [feedback more than welcome]
📣 NEW DATASET 🌍 EU Emissions Trading System Tracker 🖋️ By Jan Abrell, @mariejuge.bsky.social, @floramarchioro.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social, Thomas Mramor, Roberto Rossini, @tagliapietra.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/J0fJ35F #EconSky
