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Ilaria Conti, Head of Gas at the Florence School of Regulation, says that the energy sector has undergone such evolution that it is difficult to predict where we may be in 25 years. What is certain, she says, “is that we will have a completely different energy sector from today”.

“Simply put, you can’t reach climate change objectives if you don’t use hydrogen,” former EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs, who researches hydrogen's potential at the Florence School of Regulation, told Yahoo News.

A policy brief, developed by the Florence School of Regulation and Environmental Defense Fund Europe, describes pathways for a performance standard for natural gas to address upstream emissions for both imported and domestically produced gas.

Riducendo le emissioni di metano gli Stati appartenenti al G20 - responsabili di più di tre quarti delle emissioni antropogeniche di gas serra - hanno l'opportunità di contrastare il riscaldamento globale in maniera rapida e vantaggiosa in termini di costi.

«È una grande vittoria per la strategia europea di decarbonizzazione del sistema industriale, che viene spinto dai prezzi alti ad aumentare al massimo l’efficienza», spiega Simone Borghesi, esperto internazionale dei mercati del carbonio, direttore dell’area clima nella Florence School of Regulation.

"Objectives are set at the European level to give room for national ambitions, so governments can decide their ambitions, and the Commission can encapsulate them in a European frame. The Commission can then step in if national plans are not respected," Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), told DW.