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Giulia Signorelli

Researcher Decarbonisation

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Giulia Signorelli is a Researcher Decarbonisation at ECCO.

Giulia earned a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation and a joint Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe from the University of Bologna in March 2022. During her internship as a researcher at the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, she specialised in topics related to energy and the energy transition, contributing to projects on the decarbonisation of NATO operational forces. 

In ECCO, Giulia supports the activities related to decarbonisation, primarily in the energy, oil and gas sectors, by conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses and research in key areas for the energy transition in Italy and the Mediterranean region.  

 

Articoli di Giulia Signorelli

Pubblicazioni di Giulia Signorelli

Energy in Africa: What relations between Italy and Angola?

April 2024
The Mattei Plan offers an opportunity to redefine a new partnership with Angola. However, a partnership based on the exploitation of fossil fuels is not only not economically viable in view of a declining Italian and European demand for oil and gas according to all scenarios, but it is also on a collision course with market trends.

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Energy in Africa: What relations between Italy and Mozambique?

January 2024
An Italy-Congo partnership based on the exploitation of fossil fuels is not the best investment for the country’s economy, as it fuels a vicious cycle of debt, poverty, inequality and corruption and lack of diversification. For Italy, such partnership is not only unprofitable in the face of a declining gas demand under all scenarios, but it would also collide with market new interests. Insisting on gas in the Italy-Congo relationship increasingly ties Italy’s foreign policy to gas policy, and away from its climate commitments.

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Energy in Africa: What relations between Italy and Mozambique?

October 2023
The revival of relations between Italy and African countries needs to be contextualized within a framework of renewed interest in the African continent. In this framework, the Meloni government is working on a new strategic project for Africa, known as “Mattei Plan”, which aims at establishing equal and mutually beneficial relations with African partners, in a “non-predatory” context. Against this backdrop, Mozambique represents an extremely relevant partner for Rome, drawing on solid relations at both a governmental and civil society level.

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