Petr Hlobil

Program Director at CEE Bankwatch Network interested in development, climate change, energy and environment.

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Q&A: Can ‘carbon border adjustment mechanisms’ help tackle climate change? | @Josh_Gabbatiss @Wanyuan_Song w/ comment from @EconMitch @aygoswami @ellie_belton_ @Julia_Michalak

Read here ➡️ https://t.co/5rMcP9FyJW

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

As electricity's role in the energy mix rises, it's vital to ensure as much of it as possible is generated from clean sources

Under today's policy settings, solar & wind are both set to overtake power generation from coal by 2035

More in #WEO24 ➡️ https://t.co/62z6c1T20a

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Can a medieval town replace fossil heating with clean energy? Yes it can!

Here's an inspiring example from a place close to home for me - I grew up just a few miles from the German town of Lemgo founded in 1190. Many of Lemgo's buildings are very old and listed.

The city is using district heating in combination with advanced heat pump technology, extracting heat from its wastewater treatment plant and the nearby River Bega.

Lemgo has also installed solar thermal systems and aims to generate over 55% of its district heating from renewable sources by 2028.

Investments in large-scale heat storage are also underway to further support the transition.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Exported liquefied natural gas (LNG) is 33% dirtier than coal in terms of climate warming over the only relevant time frame, 20-years, says new study

https://t.co/4nQ3OUXIjz @MotherJones @howarth_cornell

[CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch]

A group of civil society organisations, including CEE Bankwatch Network, are calling on the European Commission and other actors to step up support for a just transition in coal-dependent communities in the Western Balkans.

In a new briefing, they outline concrete steps that the Commission, international financial institutions and national governments should take to accelerate a just transition and enable local economic diversification, ensuring they respond to people’s needs and leave no-one behind.

Read more: https://t.co/KgT5kGvmi1

[Ember @ember_energy]

The world’s electricity transition is in full swing 🌎⚡

Here are 7 charts showing just how quickly 🧵 (1/9) 👇

[Petr Hlobil @phlobil]

#NorthMacedonia #Solar "El Dorado" will be slowed down by lack of grid capacity & management. Instead investment into this @EIB and @EBRD are financing expansion of gas grid. Is their goal to undermine companies & citizens investment into #JustTransition?
https://t.co/aT2UmVM7k0

[Pieter de Pous @Pieter_de_Pous]

Reports of Germany’s energy transition u-turn have been premature:

Germany shuts down 15 coal-fired power plants – @EURACTIV https://t.co/6z6ZW1iBbl

[Joanna Flisowska @j_flisowska]

Today during the day #renewables were supplying up to 72% of electricity demand in #Poland ! 😮💪☀️ #EnergyTransition is progressing and it’s inevitable!

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Environmental watchdogs say the bank should scrap the planned loan for a new pipeline bringing additional gas to North Macedonia through Greece, claiming it breaches the EU’s and the EBRD’s environmental policies.

Read more 👇

https://t.co/gXDIZEJal1

[CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch]

1/4 BREAKING: The Modernisation Fund, intended to channel revenues from the EU’s carbon market to drive the energy transition, has poured over HALF A BILLION euros into gas-fired power plants and gas pipelines in 🇷🇴, as per our new report.
See here: https://t.co/9eY95WJIlG

[Petr Hlobil @phlobil]

@EDFproCesko Předpokládám, že k tomuhle se taky hrdě hlasíte. 330 korun miliard za jeden reaktor, a vzhledem k tomu jak to pořád roste to není konečná .reahttps://www.enr.com/articles/58180-utility-edf-writes-down-14b-loss-on-delayed-uk-nuclear-megaproject

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

European grids are getting cleaner. Renewables steeply rising.

#climate #renewables
https://t.co/JOBBtyXrWJ

[Pippa Gallop @pippagallop]

'The #WesternBalkans, with their ambitious gasification plans and costly investment into new gas supplies, risk merely replacing their current coal dependence with a new dependence on another fossil fuel that will soon suffer a similar fate' - @AMO_cz

https://t.co/kvOTp9d4xy

[CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch]

1/ A new study unravels significant flaws in North Macedonia's plans to increase fossil gas use. Besides the climate impacts and energy import dependence, now construction costs have skyrocketed as well. It is time to reconsider the whole idea. Why? 🧵

[CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch]

The 🇪🇺 is cutting its gas consumption but encouraging new gas pipelines in Western Balkan countries that will lock them into fossil fuels for 40 more years. We visited villages along the proposed  🇬🇷- 🇲🇰 pipeline to see whether people have been consulted.
https://t.co/aI56ov2IQu

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

🎙️#COP28 Press Briefing — FOR A GLOBALLY JUST ENERGY TRANSITION, WE NEED TO TRANSFORM PUBLIC FINANCE ⚖️💸🌞

When: 3 Dec, 12:30PM (GMT+4)
Speakers: @shereent, @lnacpil, @OmarElmawi, @GrupoGFLAC as reps of 222 civil society groups in 50+ countries
https://t.co/jxHgrPMfDA

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

I'm a big fan of district heating because it can unlock huge potential of waste, ambient & renewable heat + flexibility & storage.

But how to clean up existing & deploy new district heating?

New paper by @SemOxe @heatpolicyrich & me @RegAssistProj

https://t.co/fSlGL9xgPB

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[CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch]

🎉🙌[SUCCESS] After eight years of litigation, Sofia’s Administrative Court overturned the environmental impact assessment for a waste incineration plant in the Bulgarian capital.

Read more: https://t.co/V7k9qIRbR8

[350 Europe (moved to Bluesky) @350Europe]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development @EBRD is drafting their new energy strategy.

The bad news: They're not ruling out investing in fossil fuels.

The good news: They've asked for public input!

Click to tell them: NO MORE FOSSIL FUELS ⬇

https://t.co/6NbSnOiZJ5