Hot take: being a trillionaire should be illegal. Just saying.
Sebastiano Michelotti | APA - Climate Advisor
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Activist a bit bohemian on a mission ☀Climate policy | Energy | Ecological&Just transition 🇪🇺European Parliament Accredited Parliamentary Assistant - Greens/EFA 💚 ✍️Follow for #insides and #analysis
I was glad to be at “Electrifying Heating and Beyond — Europe’s Energy Security Strategy”, convened by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA), with key voices in the room from the European Commission and the International Energy Agency. www.linkedin.com/posts/sebast...
#energysecurity #electrification #heatpumps #eu #buildings #energytransition #cleanheat | Sebastiano Michelotti
I was glad to be at “Electrifying Heating and Beyond — Europe’s Energy Security Strategy”, convened by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA), with key voices in the room from the European Commissi...
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🔥 Europe's energy crisis isn't just about geopolitics anymore — climate change itself is threatening the grid. Soaring cooling demand meets falling power plant efficiency, especially during heatwaves. The grid wasn't built for this. www.linkedin.com/posts/sebast...
Rising Temperatures in Europe Are Threatening Energy Supply | Sebastiano Michelotti
Hotter summers don’t just mean discomfort. They can break the systems we rely on — and the timing couldn’t be worse. In a moment where Europe is once again facing an energy shock driven by geopolitic...
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«The "drill baby drill" guy will be remembered as the one that shrunk fossil fuels» pt. 2
Everyone talks climate tools — carbon pricing, green innovation, efficiency. But the one word we avoid explains everything: redistribution. The richest 10% emit 6× more than the poorest 50% (3.9 billion people). Top 0.1% emit 77× the 1.5°C threshold.
We thought #housing was finally going to be treated as what it is: a right, not a luxury. But when you look at what’s actually on the table, the climate part risks becoming the first thing that gets “simplified” away. 🚩A few red flags I’m watching closely: www.linkedin.com/posts/sebast...
#housing #housing #affordablehousing #climate #energyefficiency #renovation #eu #justtransition #cities #sustainability | Sebastiano Michelotti
We thought #housing was finally going to be treated as what it is: a right, not a luxury. Housing is a fundamental right, and affordability should go hand in hand with sustainability and quality. But...
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According to a new report by energy thinktank Ember, battery storage is now “cheap enough in India that solar power can meet 90% of the country’s power demand at lower lifetime costs” www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/s...
Solar energy, cheap battery storage can meet 90% of India’s power demand at affordable costs: Ember report
Battery storage is now cheap enough in India that solar power can meet 90% of the country’s power demand at lower lifetime costs than current average purchase rates in most states, a new study has fou...
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🚨 EU delays Russian oil ban as Iran war spikes prices. December's "historic" phase-out agreement? Shelved indefinitely. We're choosing fossil fuel addiction over energy security—again. When the world burns (literally), adding more oil is the worst possible move. shorturl.at/t3qos
EU delays proposal to ban Russian oil amid Iran war and price spikes | Sebastiano Michelotti
The war in Iran made this happen again: Europe will keep importing Russian gas indefinitely. Only a war could make another war even worse. “It ain’t working. That’s the way you do it,” Mark Knopfler ...
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we are about to face one of the toughest world financial crisis ever: energy prices are surging due to our deep reliance on fossile fuels, which are - as always - very exposed to geopolitical tension.
Thank goodness #renewables were supposed to be the "intermittent" sources. #FossilFuels got us two energy crises in three years, with devastating effects over both the general economy cycle and the climate
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 5mo agoRising energy prices are pushing up inflation, especially in economies dependent on imported fossil fuels. The durable solution is structural: improve efficiency, accelerate electrification and scale up renewables. Energy policy is economic policy.
Why the left is losing. An academic analysis of the falling of democracies open.substack.com/pub/sebamich...
Why the left is losing. An academic analysis of the falling of democracies
How procedural failures and a crisis of responsiveness are eroding democratic legitimacy.
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Europe's "competitiveness" debate is missing the biggest cost: €180 billion per year lost from not implementing environmental laws already on the books. Every year we delay, we pay twice: in damage, and in public money to manage the consequences. open.substack.com/pub/sebamich...
What if Europe is currently wasting €180 billion per year as cost of not implementing its own environmental law. The “competitiveness” debate we should actually have
The Commission's study finds that failing to fully implement EU environmental law costs Europeans €180 billion every year. The real competitiveness killer is letting environmental damage accumulate
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«With the cost of living spiralling out of control, affordability is now the key factor determining whether climate action gains public support or faces opposition.» 350.org/affordabilit...
Affordability is the defining climate issue of 2026
New research reveals that people want governments to spend on clean energy and bring living costs down.
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The #ClimateLaw has just been approved in the plenary session of the #EuropeanParliament 413 in favour 226 Against 12 abstentions The final text has been consistently weakened, but still this is the most ambitious and advanced climate law in the world. Not enough, but something.
molto gira intorno alla variabile della performance reale. Ma - soprattutto se passa il NO al referendum - Vannacci potrebbe spingere il CDX a riformare la legge elettorale vs un proporzionale con sbarramento. Significativo per pesi e contrappesi politici www.editorialedomani.it/politica/ita...
Perché il fattore Vannacci non riguarda solo la destra
Il partito fondato dal generale non irrita solo Matteo Salvini: ha la potenzialità di mettere in crisi l’unità di tutto il centrodestra, elemento cardine oggi del nostro sistema politico. Ci sono però...
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📍HAPPENING NOW @xrbelgium.bsky.social and activists from Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the offices of CEFIC, the European chemicals lobby group ‼️ 50 activists have declared the area a climate crime scene!
Si respira proprio una brutta aria. Questo "manualetto del corteo" raccontato come la premeditazione di chi sa che cosa è un semplice vademecum di pratiche di minima sopravvivenza. Roba che si apprende nelle formazioni di attivismo più basilari ma raccontate oggi come violenza
as it was said: the inverted pyramid Kennedy Said His Dietary Advisers Would Have ‘No Conflicts of Interest.’ Some Did. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Kennedy Said His Dietary Advisers Would Have ‘No Conflicts of Interest.’ Some Did.
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🌍 BREAKTHROUGH! After 5 intense rounds of technical negotiations, we've secured a deal! Working with @Guarda_Cristina as rapporteur, we transformed 210 amendments into 32 compromises. Exhausting but worth it! Next steps: committee vote → plenary confirmation.
20bn$ in loss the cost of climate change is already here we need mitigation, a strong global adaptation strategy and more on Loss&Damage. Countries that are suffering the most ain't the bigger polluters #reparation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deadly Floods’ $20 Billion Toll Shows Asia’s Rising Climate Risk
Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from c...
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Finally, a (partial) good news! The NRL and the UWWD should be adjusted throughout delegate acts, which limit the democratic expression. Although, given the present political context, opening the whole directive would be too dangerous www.euractiv.com/news/ribera-...
Ribera rules out changes to nature restoration law in upcoming deregulation package | Euractiv
Commission vice-president warns changes to environment law risk 'Pandora's Box'
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“Don’t worry, we are not trying to dismantle the #GreenDeal… …Just a little bit” A new #deregulation is on the way about one of the most sensitive framework in the EU. Although they sell it as simplification to foster their industrial (non-)strategy, we know how this is going. #WFD
No more ban on gas boilers. 🚨 Ring the alarm: a new attack to the #GreenDeal is on the way. The #EPBD targets are stile there, but the ban is key to streamline the investments in the right direction: the transitioning away from fossil fuels. en.ilsole24ore.com/art/brussels...
Gas boilers, the EU reconsiders and withdraws the ban from 2029
Consultation on the draft revision of the Ecodesign regulation: no marketing ban on boilers from 2029
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Climate leadership isn’t a press release. It’s rules that bite and timelines that hold. The EP’s vote to weaken the EUDR is a step backwards. Defend the law’s integrity. #EUDR #DeforestationFree
This vote is a shame. The EP just voted to weaken the EUDR. Delays. Loopholes. Shields for traders. This isn’t “simplification” — it’s backsliding. A shameful day for forests and fair competition. #EUDR #Deforestation #EU
BREAKING NEWS: “We are not fighting fossil fuels” has stated #VDL this morning at a press conference in Johannesburg, for the first African G20 Leaders' Summit. That’s my take as climate advisor👇 open.substack.com/pub/sebamich...
It’s now clear: Von der Leyen wants the EU to remain tied to high energy prices and unreliable geopolitical scenarios with fossil fuels
VDL is just parroting Oil&Gas narratives, putting the future of EU citizens (and their money) in danger. Here is why.
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BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels” She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels. #FossilFreePolitics
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