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In this fourth episode of the “Transport 4 Future” series, host Prof. Juan Montero sits down for a discussion with Rolf Diemer, Head of Unit Economic Analysis and Better Regulation at the European Commission’s DG MOVE, to discuss the main findings of the Commission’s newly published study on New Mobility Patterns in European Cities. What is the main motivation behind this study and what is its scope? Are there indications we are breaking away from the predominant reliance on private cars for urban and short distance passenger mobility? What are the study’s findings when it comes to new mobility modes, such as various forms of active and shared mobility? What are some of the national front runners and best practices on the urban mobility front? What is the current state of play in Europe when it comes to transitioning to cleaner fleets in logistics? What are the main challenges to shifting to cleaner vehicles? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more!

In this short interview, James Kneebone of the Florence School of Regulation is joined by ENTSOG's Regulatory Affairs Manager Patricia Orglerova to discuss the new 'Hydrogen Infrastructure Map'. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ www.h2inframap.eu/ Patricia gives an overview on the functionalities of the interactive map, the objectives behind its delivery, and the processes for collecting data. The pair reflect on the general progress and bottlenecks for the build of the sector towards 2030, 2040, and 2050, as well as Patricia's experience working on this project as part of an all-female team. The map represents a joint effort between ENTSOG, GIE, Eurogas, CEDEC, GD4S, and GEODE, in cooperation with European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) Initiative, as mandated by the European Commission at the 36th Madrid Forum. The first iteration of the map builds on work done under the EHB, hydrogen transmission projects collected under the biennial Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) 2022, as well as projects submitted by stakeholders who are

Laima Eicke is an Associate and former Research Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. Her research focuses on the decarbonisation pathways of countries worldwide, value chains of renewable energy technologies, and how both affect geopolitics. At the Belfer Center, Laima specifically focuses on green hydrogen. Laima is also a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. She also gained work experience at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Germany Ministry for International Affairs, two NGOs and in consultancy. Laima is a passionate observer and youth advocate in international climate negotiations

In this brief podcast, Research Associate Sofia Nicolai breaks down the Cover the Basics article on REMIT, in which we try to answer the questions: what is REMIT? Why do we need an EU framework for wholesale energy market transparency and integrity? Which obligations and prohibitions are set by REMIT and who is subject to them? Read more at https://fsr.eui.eu/eu-regulation-on-wholesale-energy-market-integrity-and-transparency-remit/

In this podcast, Guillaume Dezobry, partner at Fidal and senior lecturer in public law at Université d'Amiens, discusses two cases of unavailability of power plants in France and the consequences under the EU Regulation on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). He interviews Alexandra Bonhomme, director of the legal department at Commission de Régulation de l´Énergie (CRE), and Emeric de Vigan, Vice-President Power at Kepler Analytics, to understand the details of the two cases and the respective legal outcomes. The first case relates to the EDF group and to the unavailability of a nuclear plant; the second one relates to Engie and to the outage of a gas-fired power plant.

In this short interview, James Kneebone of the Florence School of Regulation is joined by co-founder of Bioflux, Paul Préaux, to discuss innovation in the drive to decarbonise the EU energy and waste systems. Paul gives an overview of his work with biomass pyrolysis and how this technology is being applied to valorise waste streams for the production of energy, heat, and useful biochar. The pair explore some of the challenges for innovation in this space, where best-practices are already being shared, and how the prevailing energy trilemma (security, sustainability, and price) has created a fresh imperative for policy to be more dynamic and to move quickly.

In this third episode of the “Transport 4 Future” series, host Prof. Juan Montero sits down for a discussion with Alberto Mazzola, Executive Director of the Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies (CER), on the key challenges to establishing seamless cross-border passenger rail travel across Europe. Their conversation touches upon a range of topics pertaining to timetables, ticketing, the provision of real-time information about disruption and delays, as well as more technical issues linked to standardisation and data protection. What are railway undertakings currently doing when it comes to digitalisation? What is being done in order to make timetables more widely and quickly available both at the national and international level? What are the main challenges ahead to rendering ticketing, and in particular through ticketing, available across different platforms? What is the role of digital tools in providing real-time information during journey disruptions and delays? What are the main

In the past year, several crises have emerged and posed important challenges to the European Union. The impact of energy shortages is aggravated by problems in the supply of raw materials, manufactured components and, finally, by the war in Ukraine. In this podcast, FSR Director, Jean-Michel Glachant, and CEO of the European Climate Foundation, Laurence Tubiana, share their thoughts with Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) after the launching of the joint policy manifesto, “Between crises and decarbonization: realigning EU climate and energy policy for a new State of the World”. Glachant and Tubiana are crystal-clear that energy security and climate security are not two contrasting goals, but the new “State of the World”. In this new world, EU has to rethink its strategy and decision making to prepare a systemic change involving all its citizens beyond traditional stakeholders. ➡️ To watch the recording of the launching event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkrSpu3LXW8 ➡️ To read the policy manifesto https://fsr.eui.e

This episode of the podcast series Spot on Climate centres on the reform of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) presented in the Fit for 55 Package, aiming at “Delivering the European Green Deal”. The interview with Milan Elkerbout from CEPS, a think tank in Brussels, aims to better understand the role of the European carbon market in supporting the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050. Until now, the EU ETS has been the cornerstone of the European climate policy, but to what extent will this persist? In July 2021, the European Commission proposed an extension of the scope and several amendments to the EU ETS functioning, along with other significant reforms such as the introduction of a border carbon adjustment. Milan Elkerbout (CEPS) works as a Research Fellow in the Energy, Resources and Climate Change Unit. His research focuses on EU climate policy, in particular the EU ETS. He was interviewed by Albert Ferrari, a Research Associate at FSR Climate. The main questions covered in the podcas

In this second episode of the “Transport 4 Future” series, host Prof. Juan Montero sits down for a discussion with Roelof Hellemans, Secretary General of the MaaS Alliance, on the trending topic of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). How do we define MaaS? Are there different types of MaaS solutions? What are the main benefits of empowering the traveler, which, in turn, is a guiding principle of MaaS? What are the main obstacles to the rollout of MaaS solutions? What role for public authorities, and which should be the leading actors in the transition (i.e., municipalities, transport service providers, platforms)? Where are we headed and what are the long-term requirements for MaaS to take-off? What are the latest MaaS developments across the world? Tune in to find out what the future of mobility holds!

This podcast focuses on the Commission’s state aid decision on the Belgian capacity mechanism from August 2021 and highlights the key legal aspects of the case. This case is a recent one in a long line of Commission’s state aid decisions on capacity mechanisms but it contains several novel features. It involves an assessment of whether the capacity mechanism complies with the 2019 Electricity Regulation and illustrates how the European Commission conducts the balancing of the positive and negative assessments of a proposed measure in anticipation of the new state aid guidelines for climate, energy and environment (CEEAG) which came into force in January 2022. It is also the only case so far where the Commission deals with the complexities of avoiding so-called carbon lock-in effects.

This podcast is about the replicability of the project LIFE DICET in other policy areas at the European level. It focuses on how the European Union (EU) and its Member States could successfully extend emission trading to other sectors, such as fuel combustion for buildings and road transport, and how a project like LIFE DICET could help tackle this challenge. In the podcast, Albert Ferrari from FSR Climate converses with Michael Pahle (PIK Potsdam) about LIFE DICET and the German experience to create an emission trading system (ETS) for the sectors of buildings and road transport. This discussion feeds into the current debates on a possible second EU ETS for these sectors, as proposed by the European Commission in the Fit For 55 Package. Michael Pahle leads the Working Group on Energy and Climate Policy at PIK Potsdam, and he also is an active member of the LIFE DICET Core Expert Group. In 2021, he co-authored for Bruegel a policy contribution in favour of “A whole-economy carbon price for Europe and how t

In this first episode of FSR Transport’s new podcast series ‘Transport 4 Future’ host Prof. Juan Montero speaks with Bertil Hylén, Scientific Advisor of FSR Transport about EU railway regulation and policy in relation to passenger rail services. Having closely witnessed the reform of EU railway acquis over the past 30 years, Bertil reflects on the factors behind the limited progress achieved in many Member States and shares his take on the possible ways forward. What are the necessary preconditions for the completion of the reform process in the rail sector? Has public financing been conducive of efficiency in terms of targeting the necessary rail services? Can international cross-border rail services play a greater role in Europe and should the EU be supporting their development? What about night train services? Can Rail Freight Corridors effectively boost the share of international rail freight services or is there a need for a greater degree of EU coordination? Can complex cross-border services be tendered

In this episode of the ‘On The Move’ series Teodora Serafimova, Research Associate at the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation, is joined by Delphine Grandsart, Senior Researcher at the European Passengers’ Federation, an international non-profit association representing Europe’s major passenger organisations and the interests of travellers at the EU level. What is the most desired instrument to curb emissions from road transport? What is the sort of information passengers should be provided with to induce them to opt for journeys with lower environmental footprints? What is the best way to facilitate the provision of such information to passengers, while avoiding greenwashing? What are some of the main hurdles in the way to establishing a common multimodal framework for ticketing and passenger rights? How can MaaS benefit passengers, and how has COVID-19 affected its future development? Are the current Commission guidelines for State aid in the aviation sector fit-for-purpose? What should be

On 15 December 2021 at 6th AIEE Energy Symposium, the FSR Director, Jean-Michel Glachant gave a presentation from the title “Towards flexible energy systems on the demand side: Markets & Regulation”. Professor Glachant has been elected President-elect 2022 of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) to start from January 2022. To learn more about IAEE: https://www.iaee.org/

In this episode of the On The Right Track podcast series, host Juan Montero, Part-time Professor at the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation, is joined by Veronika Haunold, European and International Affairs Manager at the Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB, in discussing the role of railways in driving the decarbonisation of the transport sector. What can railways do to support transport decarbonisation? What are the necessary measures to support the Commission’s modal shift objectives in relation to passenger rail? How can we meet passengers’ need for intermodal door-to-door connectivity? How can digitalisation boost multimodality? What is ÖBB doing in respect to night train services? What are the main obstacles to modal shift in freight transport? How can digital tools help to resolve these? Are railways “green” enough? Listen to their full conversation to get the answers to these questions

In this 5th episode of the ‘On The Move’ series Teodora Serafimova, Research Associate at the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation, speaks with Mitra Qurban, Director for Public Policy and EU Affairs at Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL), the world’s largest logistics company. DHL Group recently announced plans to accelerate the pace of its decarbonisation to achieve climate-neutral logistics by the year 2030. In the episode, Mitra elaborates on the concrete measures DPDHL is implementing to reduce the footprint of its operations in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal. How does the company ensure that its operations, which are being outsourced to third-party providers, meet minimal environmental quality standards? What are the main challenges to establishing a common framework for the harmonised measurement of transport and logistics-related greenhouse gas emissions? Does the Commission’s ReFuelEU Aviation proposal suffice to scale up the production of zero-emission sustainable aviat

With the European Year of Rail being halfway through, host Juan Montero, Part-time Professor at the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation is joined by François Davenne, Director General of the International Union of Railways (UIC), as they take stock of progress achieved to date. What is the role of technology in increasing the modal share of rail in the passenger segment? What is UIC doing in terms of using technology to facilitate better interaction between the different industry players? Can technology improve the reliability of cross-border rail freight services and thereby help to boost the modal share of rail freight? Is the current regulatory framework conducive towards more efficient cross-border services, or will a stronger EU involvement in cross-border traffic management be necessary? Is the recent revival of night train services in Europe here to stay? Tune in to their conversation to learn more.

This is a podcast about the replicability of the project LIFE DICET in other policy areas. It focuses on the development of a new mechanism of the Paris Agreement called internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs). In the podcast, Albert Ferrari from FSR Climate converses with Suzi Kerr about the replication and extension of LIFE DICET to foster cooperative approaches around ITMOs and the creation of climate teams. Suzi, Chief Economist of the Environmental Defense Fund, is an active member of the LIFE DICET Core Expert Group. She leads the project Climate Teams that aims to set up a new mechanism for international climate cooperation. The project LIFE DICET is co-financed by the EU LIFE Programme. It aims to support the EU and the Member States in international cooperation to develop and integrate carbon markets with five other ETS regulators, namely China, California, Québec, New Zealand and Switzerland. More info: https://lifedicetproject.eui.eu/ https://climateteams.org/

In this podcast, Professors Kim Talus (Universities of Tulane, Eastern Finland and Helsinki), Dirk Buschle (Energy Community Secretariat, College of Europe), and Leigh Hancher (FSR, Tilburg University, and Baker Botts LLP) discuss the impact that the CJEU's recent recognition of energy solidarity as a justiciable principle of EU law will have on the future of EU energy law and policy.