Veronica Caciagli

Passionate about #Climatechange & #Energy | Positioning & Strategic Studies @EnelGroup | Views my own | Former president @ItalianClimate Network

[Veronica Caciagli @VeronicaClima]

What a coincidence: this #powerful #infographic, contained in the #IPCC Synthesis Report, pictures exactly the 3 generations of my family.
- My mom was born in 1950. 
- I was born in 1980.
- My daughter was born in 2020...
➡️To read more on Linkedin: https://t.co/oeSyQJ5jDW ⬅️

[Che Tempo Che Fa @chetempochefa]

“Dire che qualcuno combatte contro la malattia, è come dire che se non guarisce è colpa sua”.

- @concitadeg e il libro La Cura a #CTCF

[Automoben’s Card Shop @BenCham63173153]

As a truck driver I couldn’t be more excited. Thinking about not fueling, not dealing with def, and common break downs. I also can’t overstate how nice it will be to not have to deal with California idle. For all of us that work for corporations that have automatic shutoffs after 3 minutes, this will be a Godsend. It may not sound that bad, but idle shutdowns dehumanize drivers. I work where it gets into the 90’s even 100’s at times in the summer. After a hard delivery sometimes you want to take a little break, but the stupid truck shuts down every 3 minutes. Between the hot temperatures and the diesel engine heat, the cab gets uncomfortable hot almost instantly. So instead of a relaxing break, you are fighting with the truck to keep it cool by revving the engine or restarting it. Can’t wait to be in an EV truck and have that mess gone.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

ECONOMICS JUST KILLED DIESEL. #TeslaSemi production started April 29, 2026 (2 days ago).

Same load. Same route.
$111 electric vs $358 diesel.

→ 69% cheaper energy
→ 3.2X cheaper to operate
→ $247 saved every single trip

Who’s ready for the electric freight revolution? 🚀

[Anna Hubert 🇪🇺 @AnnaHbrt]

🚨The Commission is set to announce today that France’s Céline Gauer will succeed Ditte Juul Jørgensen as Director-General for Energy (DG ENER).

The latter has just informed her staff of the move — according to several sources.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Battery-electric ferry reduced energy use 88% versus a diesel ferry during 16 months of operation in Norway, carrying 41,000 passengers per day back and forth over a river.

Plus, 0 tailpipe or grid emissions from the BE ferry since Norway's grid is 100% WindWaterSolar

https://t.co/xOL8tGYbpt

[Sondaggi Bidimedia @SBidimedia]

Orban ha approvato una nuova legge elettorale che gli avrebbe permesso di avere una netta vittoria con un piccolo vantaggio nei voti.
La cosa gli si è ritorta contro, dando una vittoria quasi al 70% con poco più del 52% dei voti all'opposizione.
A buon intenditor...

#ungheria

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The U.S. and Iran have failed to reach an agreement to end the war, Vice President JD Vance said after marathon peace talks. https://t.co/ra8FGwTItN

[Prime Minister's Office @PakPMO]

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting with His Excellency JD Vance, Vice President of the United States of America on the sidelines of Islamabad Talks. 11 April, 2026.

[Prime Minister's Office @PakPMO]

Islamabad April 11 ,2026.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting with the Iranian delegation at the Islamabad Talks today.

The Iranian side was led by the Honorable Speaker of the Iranian Consultative Assembly, Mr. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, assisted by Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Abbas Araghchi.

Appreciating Iran’s engagement in the Islamabad Talks, the Prime Minister affirmed Pakistan’s sincere resolve to continue playing its role as a mediator to help build momentum towards achieving meaningful results in the interest of regional and global peace and stability.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshall Syed Asim Munir and Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi attended the meeting from Pakistani side.

[Dominic Waghorn @DominicWaghorn]

BREAKING: Sources tell Sky:
Direct Iran - US talks in presence of Pakistani mediators have begun

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Barry Rosen @brosen1501]

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries.
So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it.
Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening.
Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room.
But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days.
What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are.
Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it.
That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds.
And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes.
What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees.
I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[Marco Di Fonzo 🇪🇺 @marcodifonzo]

++ Nota di Palazzo Chigi

Il Governo italiano continua a seguire con estrema attenzione l’evolversi della crisi in Medio Oriente e il rischio di un’ulteriore escalation militare che potrebbe coinvolgere l’intero territorio iraniano, senza distinzione tra obiettivi strategici, militari e civili.

L’Italia ribadisce la propria ferma e risoluta condanna nei confronti delle condotte destabilizzanti del regime di Teheran: dagli attacchi missilistici che minacciano la sicurezza delle nazioni del Golfo, alle reiterate intimidazioni volte a compromettere la libertà di navigazione nello Stretto di Hormuz — arteria vitale per l’economia globale — fino alla sistematica e brutale repressione interna del proprio popolo.

Tuttavia, è fondamentale distinguere nettamente tra le responsabilità di un regime e il destino di milioni di cittadini comuni. La popolazione civile iraniana non può e non deve pagare il prezzo delle colpe dei propri governanti.

Il Governo italiano condivide quanto già dichiarato dalle istituzioni dell’Unione europea sulla necessità di preservare l’integrità delle infrastrutture civili, oltre che l’incolumità della popolazione iraniana, e auspica che si possa presto giungere a una soluzione negoziale della crisi

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Decades of data says the price of storage drops by 19% every time global production doubles. This isn't some marginal gain. It's an unstoppable force of nature

You can’t out-compete math this aggressive. This "learning rate" is a one-way street to total electrification - because it's cheaper. As battery costs crater, EVs become cheaper than petrol cars, and grid storage makes solar/wind reliable 24/7

This feedback loop can't be stopped, however many fossil fuel wars Big Oil continues to initiate

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling https://t.co/KVa0cZRLn0

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

I still can't believe how quickly it feels like we moved on from this. This happened on the *first day*.

It hasn't even been a month.

[Dominic Waghorn @DominicWaghorn]

Harrowing report from Minab where US Tomahawk cruise missiles killed scores of Iranian children in an atrocity at the start of this war