Emma Beroske

Junior Consultant / Analyst

Emma Beroske joined studio Gear Up as a Junior Consultant / Analyst in October 2023. With her background in sustainable development and a passion for social and environmental justice, she has a strong drive to accelerate the circular economy transition and contribute to a fossil fuel free world. 

During her time in academia, she developed the necessary vocabulary and tools to understand complex and intersectional sustainability issues. With this knowledge in mind, she concentrated her efforts in studying solutions that address sustainability challenges on global scales and in metropolitan areas.  She gained valuable insights into urban rooftop farming initiatives while writing her thesis on their sustainability potential to address the myriad of challenges cities are facing. Later, she gained consultancy experience as part of the SDG traineeship at the SDG House in Amsterdam. There, she helped with conducting market research for the start-up Syllucid to achieve their goal of creating a more fair and sustainable electronic industry. 

With her critical thinking and intersectional perspective Emma hopes to help accelerate the energy transition and create positive impact as part of the studio Gear Up team.

Publications

High blends of renewable fuels for the heavy-duty fleet in the Netherlands

KiM Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteit – KiM) commissioned studio Gear Up to conduct research to explore the options for high-blends of renewable fuels in the heavy-duty fleet. This research served as input for KiM’s (2025) report: Renewable fuels in high blends in road freight transport , which provides recommendations for Dutch policy makers aiming to shape climate action in the road sector. The study sets out to explore alternative fuel options available to heavy-duty vehicles given that there is “uncertainty about the pace of truck electrification”. 

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sGU recommendations for practical certification guidelines intermediate crops

Intermediate crops are crops planted and harvested between main crops in a crop rotation scheme. Their development, on top of existing food and feed farm output, offer additional volumes of feedstocks for the bioeconomy without requiring additional land. studio Gear Up assessed the benefits of intermediate crops, the bottlenecks for their development and deployment and provided recommendations for certification of these crops in the frame of the Renewable Energy Directive.

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Consequences of ETS2 implementation on A-B-C deliveries of renewable fuels

Our research for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management shows that the introduction of the new ETS2 emissions trading system can have important consequences for these constructions. Because these A-B-C supply constructions play a major role in the Dutch fuel market, this is expected to make the use of A-B-C supplies less attractive for fuel suppliers, with market shift and concentration likely to result. 

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