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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

For inspiration, insights and support thanks also to @matsengstrom.bsky.social @neilmakaroff.bsky.social @marghebianchi.bsky.social @marghebianchi.bsky.social @louisevanschaik.bsky.social @matthiasduwe.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

👉 A coherent strategy that integrates these elements can cut costs, strengthen resilience, drive decarbonisation, and underpin open strategic autonomy
For inspiration, insights and support thanks to @emelines.bsky.social @frape0101.bsky.social @hochfeld.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

👉Achieving these goals affordably requires EU-wide infrastructure planning, smart use of green molecules where they are most needed, stronger circularity, and a massive expansion of domestic renewables and energy storage capacities.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

👉 As the #energytransition advances, the core energy security issues shift to power system stability, cybersecurity and industrial resilience.
👉 Unlike fossil fuel supply security, the EU can meet these goals largely through domestic policies.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

👉The EU spent € 1.3 trillions on fossil fuel imports in just three years (2022-24). Thereby funding foreign, and often adversarial, actors.
👉A renewables-based system built on domestic capital stock is inherently more resilient than the legacy system reliant on fossil fuel imports.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

❗Key takeaway: decarbonisation and energy security reinforce each other, if Europe adopts a forward-looking, adaptive strategy.
👉The EU should rethink energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralised and electrified energy systems.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 6d

🚨New Publication 🚨
Europe’s #EnergySecurity on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid-transition.

Policy brief by @agoraew.bsky.social and @ecologic.eu
I co-authored with 🙏 @marcogiuli.bsky.social Frauke Thies & Krisztina Zálnoky .
www.ecologic.eu/20204
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Europe's energy security on the path to climate neutrality

The EU must rethink its energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralized, and electrified energy systems. Energy security already benefiting from the early start of the energy transit...

www.ecologic.eu

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d

This photo just about sums it up

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 8d

WHO-Statistik 2019: Alkoholverbrauch in 🇮🇹 8 lt/; 🇩🇪 13,4 (67% mehr!); 🇨🇵12,6; 🇵🇱 11,6; in UK 11,4. Das Verhältnis Wein/Bier ist in 🇮🇹 besser. Bei Ihren Schwiegereltern mag die nette Schwiegertochter den wissensch. unbestreitbaren Alkoholschaden ausgeglichen haben. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita - Wikipedia

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28d

Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 3

How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation?

You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.

Why help the lie?

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Jul 31

the recent drop in the share of collected data appears "just" 3-4 times larger than the temporarily drop in March 2020. What event could have caused the latter 🤔? Could be a rough benchmark for how bad the current administration is

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · Jul 31

Please remind news media parroting US government inflation statements that those are just Trump regime fantasy numbers since May.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 30

‘1984’ is upon us

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Jul 15

100% richtig, dass Feminismus ein essentieller Beitrag zu Demokratie ist! Warum nicht auch Aktivismus? Nur AKTIVE Demokrat*innen können unsere Demokratie vor dem wohl hyperaktiven Angriff ihrer Feinde retten.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Jun 27

🇷🇴 is 3rd #crudeoil producer in the EU, and EU Member State with most abandoned oil wells. They may continue to emit #methane for decades after the end of extraction.
Personal note: 1st time a publication of mine is translated into Romanian
@tabeapottiez.bsky.social
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Ecologic Institut @ecologic.eu · Jun 27

Methane matters: A practical guide for effective #methane #mitigation in #Romania – tailored to national contexts and public authorities.
👉Jetzt auf #Rumänisch! Now in #Romanian! Acum în #română!
👉https://www.ecologic.eu/20099
piria.bsky.social, @cde-cz.bsky.social edfenergyex.bsky.social

Punerea în aplicare în România a Regulamentului UE privind metanul.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · May 28

Today we published two guides to implement the #EUMethaneRegulation. Cutting #methane emissions crucial to slow down global warming in #Czechia and #Romania
CZ www.ecologic.eu/20098
RO www.ecologic.eu/20099
Relevant for other EU countries too.
Thanks to our partner @cde-cz.bsky.social

Implementing the EU Methane Regulation in Czechia

The quality of national implementation of the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) across Member States is essential for achieving the EU's climate targets and demonstrating global leadership. Methane (CH₄)...

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very good points. Just note that nearly all these arguments work even without the global/international dimension. Think of power grids, a smartphone, life-saving health technologies, all infrastructure that makes life in any small.or large city possible. No US state can survive without experts.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Apr 8

Do you know simple answers that can realistically work for >8bn people without need for complex systems?

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Reporter ohne Grenzen @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de · Apr 7

#Deutschland: Seit dem Aufstieg extrem rechter Kräfte, die offen medienfeindlich auftreten, sehen sich Lokaljournalist*innen zunehmend bedroht. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des @ecpmf.bsky.social und des Bundesverbands Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV). www.bdzv.de/service/pres...

Lokaljournalismus unter Druck: BDZV warnt vor wachsender Bedrohung der freien Berichterstattung

Der Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV) ist besorgt: Die freie und unabhängige Berichterstattung steht besonders im Lokaljournalismus unter wachsendem Druck. Eine aktuelle Studi...

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Mar 15

Refreshing to see many students in deep-red Idaho publicly defending their teacher's decision to hang in the dchool a sign ‘Everyone is welcome here’. But so disturbing that public officers did work to forbid it.

youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...

Students stand in solidarity with teacher told to remove "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster

YouTube video by KTVB

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Mar 15

"The district did not explain how a sign reading “Everyone is welcome here” would be in violation of that law." - The abyss the US is falling into is deeper than many here in Europe are prepared to acknowledge.

Read more at: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...

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Borys Kormych @kormych.bsky.social · Mar 14

The US stock market is behaving as if the country is governed by a six-times bankrupt

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Mar 15

Another sign that we are witnessing a tragedy of epical proportions

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Mar 14

A stunning essay in the @financialtimes.com on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things. It began or accelerated in the early 2010s. It's hitting teens AND adults. Self-report and objective scores.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · Mar 13

I candidly ask, because I don't know the answer: are the 4.7 €bn announced by the Commission fresh (additionally, previously not planned for SA) money, and how does the fresh EU money compare with USmoney planned for JETP and any other formerly US-funded energy transition projects in SA?

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