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Davide Sabbadin
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Green at heart. Posting from Brussels, mostly on energy and politics. Personal opinions only.
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🚨 The EU Commission caves to pressure to weaken ETS2!

Flooding Europe’s new carbon market for 🚗&🏠 with more pollution permits won’t protect people, it’ll reward polluters.

Worried about high carbon prices? Cut fossil demand now and use ETS2 cash to help citizens, not to buy time for fossil fuels.
A powerful way to discuss climate greenwashing with #youth: turn it into a game.
Role-playing the roles of policymakers, CEOs, and activists reveals just how complex the fight is. And it empowers them to see through the green sheen and recognize real vs. bogus claims.
#Climate #Greenwashing
🧑‍⚖️ Who’s guilty of greenwashing?

As part of our European Youth in Action project, we stepped into a mock courtroom to put fake corporate climate claims on trial. We dissected real “green” portfolios - learning by playing, and training young people to spot lobbyist tricks and greenwash like pros. 💫
Very interesting visit to a farm in #Leuven (Belgium) testing different types of AgriPhotovoltaic panels (producing cabbages) and groundbreaking tech producing H2 from the air with electricity from the sun.
Modular, can work anywhere on earth.
On the market in 2028.
Future in the making.
Some good ideas on how to decarbonise homes in Europe without helping Trump or Putin.
❤️‍🔥 Europe has the power to reclaim its heat.

It’s time to kick fossil dependence to the curb.

The EU is drafting a new Heating & Cooling Strategy - a unique chance to break free from fossil dependency and make renewable, affordable heat the European standard.

Here’s how 👇
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Green products: it's time for supermarkets to step up!

Retailers must make products with the #EUEcolabel (and equivalent labels) available, visible and affordable – so the sustainable choice becomes the easy choice everywhere in Europe.

Read our press release: eeb.org/cheaper-but-... @beuc.eu
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⚠️ Worried about data centres’ energy & water use? Don’t forget the chemicals!

Data centres use F-gases is their cooling systems - potent greenhouse gases that also leak #ForeverChemicals into air, water & soil.

Europe must build its AI boom on renewable energy + safe, natural refrigerants 🌿
Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
www.theguardian.com
This is useful both in the EU and the US.
🌲Burning wood is clean, green and climate neutral, right?
🫢Nope. wrong. It's renewable, but it is far from being climate-neutral, and it is already the #1 source of air pollution in Europe. Bummer.
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Air pollution is linked directly to Lewy body dementia +Alzheimer’s PM 2.5 is found to be the culprit #CleanTheAir

Monitor IAQ
Ventilate
filter

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The more I read of the incredible reluctance of the European Automotive industry to move forward with electrification plans, the more it seems to me a suicidal rant.
And all I can think of is... well. read below 😜
🎠🛞
#realfakes
#automotive
#climatecrisis
#AI
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We're hiring! Apply to join our team as a Communications Officer:

coolheatingcoalition.eu/2025/08/12/h...
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The Commission proposal for the next long-term EU budget aka MFF just dropped. Its overall volume increases very moderately, but the proposal contains sweeping changes to the way the EU spends money and to budget's priorities.

Here is my first quick take:
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🚨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔-𝐔𝐒 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.

At its core is a €700 billion pledge to import U.S. fossil fuels and nuclear energy over the next three years - fundamentally incompatible with the EU’s 2030 climate targets.
"It's impossible that heat pumps become a mainstream techno...oh wait.."

#decarbonization
#heating
#cooling
🔥 BREAKING: Heat pumps now outsell gas boilers in Germany!

A major climate milestone - and proof that fossil-free heating works when policy delivers:

✅ National ban on fossil fuel boilers in new buildings
✅ Strong EU-level renewable heating rules
✅ Public funding to help households make the switch
Heat Pump Sales Top Gas Boilers in Germany for the First Time
Sales of heat pumps in Germany surpassed gas boilers for the first time as a ban on dirty heating systems forces a shift to cleaner energy.
www.bloomberg.com
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Exxon spending tens of thousands of euro per week to sponsor Politico's 'sustainability' and the widely read (free) 'playbook' newsletters, pushing for more focus on plastic *recycling* instead of reducing plastic production

For oil & gas companies, plastic is a way to keep drilling and polluting
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📈 What stands in the way of more renewable energy?

🤫 Spoiler: It’s not nature protection laws.

The real barriers? Staff shortages, rushed public engagement, and weak grid connections.
Introducing serious filters in wood stoves is a win-win-win measure:
🎯It improves indoor and outdoor air quality, improving comfort and saving lives.
🎯It cuts on climate emissions, as these local emissions are ALSO serious climate pollutants
🎯It cuts on societal health costs

A short read👇
🔥 Wood stoves: romantic, rustic, and deadly.

Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.

A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.

🧵
Wood stoves without filters? EU study warns of high health costs
New evidence shows that mandating filters in wood-burning heaters could cut harmful particle emissions by 70%, reducing the health burden.
www.coolproducts.eu
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Today, the EU Commission unveiled the long-awaited roadmap to end EU imports of Russian fossil fuels: a necessary step for peace, energy security and climate targets. Here's why it matters and our reaction 👇🧵

#EnergySky #EnviroSky