The 2040 milestones that #Europe must meet to achieve #ClimateNeutrality by 2050.

Major PIK modelling study provides guidance on the required pace of transition to fossil-free technologies.

#EU dependence on #gas and #oil imports falls by 60 percent.

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/the-2040-milestones-that-europe-must-meet

🚗⚡ #EFuels – The Future of #InternalCombustionEngines and #Fuels Explained

How much of a #future do they still have?

In this #Zoomposium with #ChristopherHebling, Director at #FraunhoferISE and Board Member of the Forum for #FutureEnergies e.V., it becomes clear:

📺 https://youtu.be/E62Kij5i_Ck

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/12/17/wasserstoff-als-loesung/

#Hydrogen #MobilityoftheFuture #PowerToX #Decarbonization #ClimateNeutrality #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalSustainability #EconomicViability

🔌 As Europe works to strengthen #energysecurity on its path to #climateneutrality, #electrifying industrial process heat is a clear opportunity to cut both #emissions and fossil fuel import dependence.

⚡️ With new support schemes being developed – including under the forthcoming Industrial Decarbonisation Bank – an important question persists: how does the carbon intensity of today’s power mix shape the real world impact of #electrification? 1/x

My Comment: Our #future needs education, a global sense of #unity, a focus on important #goals: #climateneutrality, new technologies or space exploration. But in #Germany, as elsewhere, signs point to #nationalism, #xenophobia, #racism. #AfD and other #rightwing activists are the #wrong path. Inter alia, I see negative influences also in some German #duelingfraternities.
©#StefanFWirth 2026

Further reading: fraternity scandals
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/171110.zur-negerjagd-nach-namibia.html

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2020-09/antisemitismus-heidelberg-rechtsextremismus-misshandlung-burschenschaften-jude-student

Pics
©S F Wirth

German energy and climate regulation should not exceed EU requirements – business

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-energy-and-climate-regulation-should-not-exceed-eu-requirements-business #energytransition #climateneutrality
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-energy-and-climate-regulation-should-not-exceed-eu-requirements-business

Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK - At least if you take climate damages into account.

(And quite affordable even if you don’t. Especially compared to some other recent UK policy choices one can mention)

https://www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-scenario-is-cheapest-option-for-uk-says-energy-system-operator/

#Climate #Economics #UK #UKPol #ClimateNeutrality #NetZero

Germany needs gas and oil phase-out strategies, coal exit on track for now – govt advisors

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-needs-gas-and-oil-phase-out-strategies-coal-exit-track-now-govt-advisors #energytransition #climateneutrality #emissions