Davide Sabbadin
@davidesabbadin.bsky.social
Green at heart.
Posting from Brussels, mostly on energy and politics.
Personal opinions only.
Posting from Brussels, mostly on energy and politics.
Personal opinions only.
The perfect plan
Now, read this. This is no conspiracy theory; it is happening now.
(while civil society is threatened in many other ways in the USA, too)
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Now, read this. This is no conspiracy theory; it is happening now.
(while civil society is threatened in many other ways in the USA, too)
euobserver.com/eu-political...
How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy
The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all w...
euobserver.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The perfect plan
Now, read this. This is no conspiracy theory; it is happening now.
(while civil society is threatened in many other ways in the USA, too)
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Now, read this. This is no conspiracy theory; it is happening now.
(while civil society is threatened in many other ways in the USA, too)
euobserver.com/eu-political...
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Our @davidesabbadin.bsky.social was at the European Heat Pump Summit 2025, catching the latest trends and policies pushing the heating transition in Europe.
More insights here 👇 sway.cloud.microsoft/OObBei6EQ8kJ...
More insights here 👇 sway.cloud.microsoft/OObBei6EQ8kJ...
European Heat Pump Summit 2025
The conference started with some interesting figures from the European Heat Pump Association, reporting encouraging progress in 2025 from the previous year.
sway.cloud.microsoft
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our @davidesabbadin.bsky.social was at the European Heat Pump Summit 2025, catching the latest trends and policies pushing the heating transition in Europe.
More insights here 👇 sway.cloud.microsoft/OObBei6EQ8kJ...
More insights here 👇 sway.cloud.microsoft/OObBei6EQ8kJ...
Is China destined to be monopolist for PV production?
An interesting read:
‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’ – pv magazine International share.google/VZ2YyyzgLfUT...
An interesting read:
‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’ – pv magazine International share.google/VZ2YyyzgLfUT...
‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’
At the Modules and Material Worksop in Konstanz, organized by solar manufacturing engineering company RCT Solutions and ICS Konstanz, experts from the European PV equipment production industry gathere...
share.google
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Is China destined to be monopolist for PV production?
An interesting read:
‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’ – pv magazine International share.google/VZ2YyyzgLfUT...
An interesting read:
‘Solar modules could be produced in Europe at €0.15/W’ – pv magazine International share.google/VZ2YyyzgLfUT...
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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.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨 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.
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
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. 💫
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. 💫
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
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
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.
Modular, can work anywhere on earth.
On the market in 2028.
Future in the making.
October 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
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 👇
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 👇
October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Some good ideas on how to decarbonise homes in Europe without helping Trump or Putin.
Reposted by Davide Sabbadin
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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
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 🌿
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
October 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
⚠️ 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 🌿
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 🌿
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.
(1/2)
🌲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.
(1/2)
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
(1/2)
🌲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.
(1/2)
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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...
Monitor IAQ
Ventilate
filter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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...
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
And all I can think of is... well. read below 😜
🎠🛞
#realfakes
#automotive
#climatecrisis
#AI
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
And all I can think of is... well. read below 😜
🎠🛞
#realfakes
#automotive
#climatecrisis
#AI
Five good examples from Europe of how #renewables can help #rural #communities
#wind #windenergy #solar
meta.eeb.org/2025/08/25/f...
#wind #windenergy #solar
meta.eeb.org/2025/08/25/f...
meta.eeb.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Five good examples from Europe of how #renewables can help #rural #communities
#wind #windenergy #solar
meta.eeb.org/2025/08/25/f...
#wind #windenergy #solar
meta.eeb.org/2025/08/25/f...
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global
As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...
chuffed.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...
Reposted by Davide Sabbadin
We're hiring! Apply to join our team as a Communications Officer:
coolheatingcoalition.eu/2025/08/12/h...
coolheatingcoalition.eu/2025/08/12/h...
August 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We're hiring! Apply to join our team as a Communications Officer:
coolheatingcoalition.eu/2025/08/12/h...
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:
Here is my first quick take:
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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:
Here is my first quick take:
Reposted by Davide Sabbadin
🚨 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.
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.
July 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🚨 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.
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
#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
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
July 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"It's impossible that heat pumps become a mainstream techno...oh wait.."
#decarbonization
#heating
#cooling
#decarbonization
#heating
#cooling
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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
For oil & gas companies, plastic is a way to keep drilling and polluting
July 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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
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.
🤫 Spoiler: It’s not nature protection laws.
The real barriers? Staff shortages, rushed public engagement, and weak grid connections.
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📈 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.
🤫 Spoiler: It’s not nature protection laws.
The real barriers? Staff shortages, rushed public engagement, and weak grid connections.
Reposted by Davide Sabbadin
How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen?
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed
EU politicians are presenting green hydrogen as a win-win fuel, claiming it will lead to low-carbon industrialisation in the Global South while decarbonising economies in Europe. The reality on the gr...
euobserver.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen?
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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👇
🎯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 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
June 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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👇
🎯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👇
Reposted by Davide Sabbadin
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
#EnergySky #EnviroSky
June 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
#EnergySky #EnviroSky
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The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈
This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.
Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...
This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.
Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...
The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part II: Gas imports & energy prices | Corporate Europe Observatory
The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently a...
corporateeurope.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈
This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.
Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...
This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.
Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...
They say you need to internalise the concepts behind the decarbonisation of heating & cooling.
I am taking immediate action, thanks to the cupcakes of the @coolheatingco.bsky.social
#EUSEW2025
I am taking immediate action, thanks to the cupcakes of the @coolheatingco.bsky.social
#EUSEW2025
June 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
They say you need to internalise the concepts behind the decarbonisation of heating & cooling.
I am taking immediate action, thanks to the cupcakes of the @coolheatingco.bsky.social
#EUSEW2025
I am taking immediate action, thanks to the cupcakes of the @coolheatingco.bsky.social
#EUSEW2025