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Ilaria Conti is Head of Gas at the Florence School of Regulation. Her main fields of expertise concern EU institutional relations and EU electricity and gas regulation. She spent about 9 years in Brussels, working for the the Permanent Representation of Italy at the EU, the United Nations and, from 2005 until 2013, for EFET, the “European Federation of Energy Traders” covering various positions wi...

Andris Piebalgs is former European Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II), currently with the prestigious Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) in Fiesole, Italy.  For what we were interested in this dialogue, it was  noteworthy that Piebalgs was the Chair of the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) Implementation Committee. We ta...

Julian Popov, minister of environment of Bulgaria, is an expert on low carbon economy and energy security in South East Europe. He is ECF Fellow, Chairman BPIE, Energy Security Adviser to the Bulgarian President. Founding Vice Chancellor of the New Bulgarian University, Founding Board Member of the Institute of Sustainable Transition and Development, Former Chairman of the Bulgarian School of Poli...

In the premiere episode of "Methane," we embark on a journey to unravel the complexities of methane emissions, exploring why this often-overlooked greenhouse gas holds the key to combating global warming.  Join host Francesca Fazey as she introduces the world of methane emissions, shedding light on its significance, challenges, and where we might look to start on delivering some promisin...

In this second episode of our podcast, we delve into the complex world of methane emission sources. Join us as we look at the five main sectors that emit methane, unpack how the main ingredient of natural gas is also emitted by cow burps and get a taste of how scientists tease apart the difference. We’ll also touch on why so much emphasis is placed on the emissions from oil and gas.  Host:  The sh...

In this episode, we introduce our listeners to some of the world’s methane hunters, environmental detectives who use cutting-edge technology to detect and quantify methane emissions, making an invisible gas, visible. We embark on a methane hunting expedition of our own and talk to the coordinator of one of the world’s largest methane studies on the difference between estimated and measured emissio...

Host:  The show is presented by: Francesca Fazey Affiliation: The show is brought to you by: 2Celsius Association Resource List:  1.      Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) 2.      International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) 3.      International Energy Agency (IEA) 4.      Global Methane Tracker 5.      United Nations Global Methane Pledge 6.      Rocky Mountain Institute Climate Pro...

Natural gas is the ideal bridge fuel to support the global energy transition, or so the story goes. But what about methane emissions? Environmentalists want us to throw it on the pile of the other fossil fuels and doom it to the past. The energy community says: Not so fast. Where are we on our energy transition journey when it comes to natural gas and if we’re going to invest in it going forward,...

So if methane is this big a problem, what tools do we have, and are we using, to solve it? The first global agreement that methane was a problem came in the form of the Global Methane Pledge announced at COP26 at Glasgow in 2021. What’s happened since then, especially in the industry with the easiest to abate emissions: oil and gas? We look at the International Methane Emissions Observatory, the O...