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Trends in electricity production – June 2022

For the first time, renewables including large hydro surpass fossil fuels (fossil gas and lignite) during the first half of the year.

What does the new ΕU gas reduction target mean for Greece?

Nikos Mantzaris on ERT television and radio.

Trends in the Emissions Trading System in Greece and the European Union – 2021

Whilst in the midst of an intense energy and economic crisis due to the explosion of fossil fuel prices and the threat of a fossil gas supply disruption from Russia, many European countries, including Greece, have increased coal mining and are considering lifetime extensions of coal power plants. At the same time, the European Union…

Sustainable funding for REPowerEU

Comments submitted by the Green Tank on updating EU legislation to make the EU independent from Russian fossil fuels.

No room for fossil gas in the EU’s Modernization Fund

Opinion article by Nikos Mantzaris as part of the project Life ETX.

Short-term energy solutions and long-term risks

Nikos Mantzaris on ERT's TV evening news.

The de-lignitization process must continue

Article by Nikos Mantzaris in the NAFTEMPORIKI special issue on energy.

How will Greece overcome the energy crisis: LNG, lignite or renewables?

Article by Nikos Mantzaris in a 2022 special edition of energypress on energy sectors and energy companies in the Greek market.

Trends in electricity production – May 2022

New all-time low for lignite in the first 5 months of the year with 21% decrease compared to the same period in 2021.

We need a “clean” Modernization Fund

Joint letter to to EU-27 Environment Ministers.

The necessary steps to green transition and the role of industry

The Green Tank at the open even of the SEV General Assembly 2022

The Greek-Bulgarian collaboration in the energy sector must be sustainable

Article by Nikos Mantzaris published by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Thessaloniki.

EU ETS 101: A guide to the EU’s Emissions Trading System

A publication on EU ETS by Carbon Market Watch in collaboration with partners of the project Life ETX.

NGOs, think tanks and industries urge MEPs to vote for a more ambitious and effective Emissions Trading System

The Green Tank along with 20 other environmental NGOs, think tanks and industries co-signed a letter to MEPs regarding the crucial vote in the European Parliament’s plenary session on the EU-ETS Directive on 8 June 2022.