Why the US should push renewables, not gas, in Europe
Launched in 2015 by Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, then President of Croatia, the Three Seas Initiative…
All articles by Julian Popov
Julian Popov
Julian Popov is a fellow of the European Climate Foundation, chairman of the Buildings Performance Institute Europe and the former Minister of Environment of Bulgaria. He is a member of the advisory council of EIT Climate-KIC and sits on the boards of several European energy policy think tanks.
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Why we need an EU-Turkey energy transition platform
By 2023, the centenary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan wants to send a mission…
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How Ukraine could be key to EU clean energy ambitions
By moving away from fossil fuels and scaling up renewables, Ukraine could transform its energy system, strengthen its economy and…
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The myths keeping eastern Europe in the fossil age
When EU leaders recently agreed to reduce carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030, eastern European leaders returned home…
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US-Russia gas battle is building stranded assets in Europe
For a long time, the US administration has been supporting alternatives to Russian gas routes into Europe. The joint objective…
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Will Russia fully engage with the geopolitics of clean energy?
The steely determination of Margaret Thatcher, the passionate appeal by Ronald Reagan to “tear down this wall” and the democratic…
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The misleading energy transition language of Eastern Europe
The local council of Haskovo, a Bulgarian town close to one of the biggest lignite power complexes in Europe, has…