Commentaries

The REPowerEU plan spells out the need to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy sources, cut energy use and diversify supply. However, European leaders are now locked into infrastructure for mobilizing liquefied natural gas and other readily available fossil-fuel options, while remaining mostly silent on climate. The climate-science community must step up to help Europe navigate this energy crisis.

Doukas, H., & Nikas, A. (2022). Europe’s energy crisis — climate community must speak up. Nature, 608, 472.

Now is the right time to re-design the way we assess energy progress. Bringing together people from all layers of the energy ecosystem is vital to keep moving forward together within these multiple crises.

Doukas, H. (2022). Energy Citizenship – A new dimension in Energy Policy Making. New Europe, https://www.neweurope.eu/article/energy-citizenship-a-new-dimension-in-energy-policy-making.

Energy is a bigger story than carbon neutrality. It interconnects people and places, hopes and fears. If we want to shift towards a carbon-free economy. an honest and inclusive conversation is needed, in which considerably more groups of people are involved and represented.

Doukas, H. (2022). Energy Transitions: Keeping the Society on Board. Open Access Government, Issue of January 2022.

Small modular reactors are being pitched as an affordable and fast way to decarbonise power grids but questions about the technology abound.

Despite the promises made at COP26, the world is still on track for a dangerous amount of warming.

Modellers look at how climate policies might change with time — and find a wide range of possible outcomes, none of them good.

During the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, many analysts rushed to report on the ambition of nations, predicting a future as predicted by climate pledges announced. A new study, that the National Technical University of Athens took part in, raises serious questions, estimating the predictions made entail great uncertainty, despite the pretext for reassurance.

During the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, many analysts rushed to report on the ambition of nations, predicting a future as predicted by climate pledges announced. A new study, that the National Technical University of Athens took part in, raises serious questions, estimating the predictions made entail great uncertainty, despite the pretext for reassurance.

Paris (AFP) – UN projections of how much current climate policies and national pledges to cut carbon pollution will slow global warming are more uncertain than widely assumed, researchers reported Monday.

In the aftermath of the United Nations’ annual climate conference earlier this month, scientists have a sobering message: The world still is not on track to meet its international climate goals.

A new analysis by researchers from the EU Horizon 2020 project 'Paris Reinforce', including Imperial College London's Dr Ajay Gambhir, has found that the impact of climate policies is more uncertain than is often assumed by policymakers.

Despite the commitments made by the signatory countries of the Paris agreement, the authors of a study published in the journal "Nature Climate Change" estimate that the average temperature on Earth could increase from 2.2 ° C to 2.9 ° C by 2100.

A new analysis casts doubt on whether scientists can precisely estimate how much nations' combined emissions-cutting pledges will stem global warming, instead showing a wide range of potential outcomes.

Researchers have calculated the most likely course of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, based on today's climate policy. A temperature rise of less than two degrees is almost impossible.

Confident claims that promises made by world leaders will drastically reign in global warming could be wildly off the mark, according to a major new international study.

The overwhelming percentage of 98% of citizens in our country recognizes climate change as a major issue and specifically associates it with contemporary natural disasters (92%). They also believe that in order to deal with climate change we need to invest in solar (78,4%), wind (60%) and hydroelectric energy (32%).

According to Zacharias Zoupis, survey director in Opinion Poll, "the survey received input from 1001 households, which is a respectable sample with proportionate representation across Greece."

98% of Greek citizens recognize climate change as a major planetary issue, while among the young ones, the percentage reaches the absolute 100%.

98% of Greek citizens believe climate change is a serious issue for the planet, while among the young ones, the percentage reaches the absolute 100%, according to findings of the survey ran by Opinion Poll. More specifically 92% of Greek citizens associate climate change with contemporary natural disasters increasing, whereas just 6% disagrees. Also of note that over 68% are not aware of the priorities of the energy design of our country, while only 25% has a rough understanding of it.

Assoc. Prof. Haris Doukas (National Technical University of Athens) responds to WWF's questions on climate justice, the need for a new and just Climate Law in Greece, and the PARIS REINFORCE project, in an interview in LiFO.

Lignite production and use in Greece has been dropping in the last decade, marking a sharp decline during COVID-19. According to the country’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), lignite must be completely phased out by 2028.

Doukas, H., & Nikas, A. (2021). The Delignitisation Roller Coaster in Greece: An Old Car and a Steep Slope Ahead. The Future of Work. Available at: https://republic.gr/futureofwork/the-delignitisation-roller-coaster-in-greece-an-old-car-and-a-steep-slope-ahead/

The so-called “fast fashion” entails a cost that is not at all negligible. And the pandemic has highlighted it.