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Will European trade undermine the EU’s move to clean biofuels?
The EU is negotiating trade deals with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), Indonesia, and soon Malaysia, These trade deals represent a risk for the EU’s sustainable transport plans. All...
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The Role of Road Charging in Improving Transport
On 31 May 2017, the European Commission published its proposal to review the ‘Eurovignette’ Directive. The Directive defines how Member States of the European Union can charge vehicles for their use of...
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Cars and vans CO2 regulations: even ambitious EU standards deliver less than...
Road transport is one of the few EU sectors where CO2 emissions continue to grow. To address the problem, the Commission plans to publish its proposals on car and van CO2 standards in November,...
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National governments do little to share effort on climate goals
National governments and MEPs have reached a provisional deal on Europe’s key climate law which will cover about 60% of the Europe’s total greenhouse gas emissions. The Effort Sharing Regulation, now...
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Transport now biggest source of US climate emissions
Transport has taken over from power generation as the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US – and the situation is likely to get worse as the Trump administration plans to weaken...
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Future of biofuels in Europe hangs on MEPs’ vote
The continued use of high-emitting biofuels to power Europe’s cars and trucks is up for decision in the European Parliament next week. In deciding the Parliament’s position on reform of the Renewable...
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The human cost of the EU biofuels policy – Hernán Bedoya
Environmental destruction costs human lives too. On 8 December an NGO friend phoned me up with the shocking news that Colombian community leader and land claimant Hernán Bedoya had been assassinated,...
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A green tax shift to transport can help fix the EU budget
Transport is Europe’s biggest climate problem, representing 27% of the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions. If Europe is to meet its climate targets and avoid the severe impacts of climate change,...
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Enrico Letta, Pascal Lamy and Hans Eichel urge European leaders to use a...
The EU should fill its post-Brexit budget gap with new revenues from taxing transport, which is Europe’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta, ex-WTO head...
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Enough public chargers planned; infrastructure can’t be blamed for the slow...
More investment in public charging infrastructure needed after 2020 as electric vehicle sales increase.Press release from the Electromobility Platform.Contrary to mainstream belief that there are not...
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Shift taxes to polluting transport to fix EU budget and tax workers less,...
There are growing calls for a green tax shift to the transport sector, which would help fill a gap in the EU’s budget after the UK leaves. A T&E analysis has found new measures such as a carbon tax...
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The good, the bad and the ugly: from Effort Sharing Decision to Climate...
The Climate Action Regulation (CAR), known previously as the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) will become part of European law in 2018. This paper analyses the different elements agreed in the...
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Making palm oil a poster child for free trade would be a spectacular own goal
“As expected” mumbled Commission president Juncker when an aide passed him a note saying Trump had decided to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminium. The American administration had been...
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Air pollution on the rise in Spain
Some 97% of Spain’s population is being exposed to harmful levels of air pollution, a report by T&E’s Spanish member Ecologistas en Acción shows. The economic recovery has brought an increase in...
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Emission reduction strategies for the transport sector in Spain
Spain has to reduce its non-ETS greenhouse gas emissions by 26% in 2030, and transport is the highest emitter within these non-ETS sectors. As a result, and also to comply with the EU's long-term...
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Fuelling Spain’s Future
Fuelling Spain’s Future: How to boost the economy while leaving carbon behind shows that improving the efficiency of cars and increasing the number of zero emissions vehicles on the road will lead to a...
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EU motorists forced to burn more palm oil and rainforest to meet green energy...
The use of palm oil for EU biofuels dwarfs the amount used to make cookies, hazelnut spreads, ice cream, shampoo, lipsticks – and other food and cosmetic products. That’s according to new industry data...
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Grids, renewables and e-mobility: how to get the maximum out of the three
When? Monday, October 15, 2018 - 09:00 to 16:15Electromobility is the most promising future technology to decarbonize road transport. Grid management is critical to electric vehicle adoption. Smart...
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Impacts and consequences of the adopted Climate Action Regulation
The European Union’s (EU) largest climate change mitigation tool, the Climate Action Regulation (CAR), covers almost 60% of all greenhouse gases. It establishes annual carbon budgets between 2021 and...
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Transport running on fossil gas is as bad for the climate as diesel, petrol...
Using natural gas for transport is as bad for the climate as using petrol, diesel or conventional marine fuels, a new report finds. Burning gas in cars also emits as much air pollution as petrol and...
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