EU Deal On Truck Charging Clears The Way For Ambitious CO2 Targets
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:05:28 +0000
Governments will be required to ramp up public charging for cars and trucks
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EU Takes 1st Step to Ensure Green Technologies Are Made In Europe
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:55:13 +0000
T&E welcomes self-sufficiency targets for battery raw materials and production goals for clean tech. The EU today unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that it fears are luring European cleantech companies to North America. The proposed Critical Raw Materials Act will help the bloc secure supply of the metals needed to […]
Energy Insecurity
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:24:24 +0000
One of the lessons that countries are learning from the current war in Ukraine is that centralised power generation creates energy vulnerability, and therefore energy insecurity. In a despicable move against the civilians of Ukraine, Russia has targeted energy infrastructure. Wars have been fought over access to energy sources for centuries, and energy generation can […]
Recommendations For The EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:05:37 +0000
Birdlife International, CAN Europe, European Environmental Bureau, E3G, New Economics Foundation, Transport & Environment and WWF provide their recommendations on the European Commission’s initiative to create a Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP) The statement calls on the European Commission to: Focus the Net-Zero Industry Act on ambitious goals for 2030 with clear priority sectors Develop […]
Two-Thirds of European Battery Production at Risk — Analysis
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:00:05 +0000
IRA subsidies are chief threat to gigafactory plans unless Europe offers accessible incentives and streamlined permitting.
Minority German Party Tries To Block EU Rule To Go 100% BEV By 2035
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:30:14 +0000
While Volkswagen Group plans to go all electric by 2033 in the EU, some German drivers and BMW would like to keep their tailpipe polluters. After agreeing to the EU regulation to ban internal combustion light vehicles by 2035, the FDP, the smallest member of the German governing coalition, is walking back its agreement to […]
Germany Threatens To Derail EU Green Deal Over Fossil Car Phaseout
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:27:01 +0000
The “Climate Chancellor” needs to draw a line between national disputes and what has already been agreed with Germany’s international partners.
The “Last Drop of Diesel” Cartel
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 04:58:19 +0000
When I joined T&E in 2011 there was a consensus: truckers would have the last drop of diesel. They would be the last sector to decarbonise. If ever. The other consensus – in our community – was that rail was the answer to all freight’s problems. Clearly there was a problem. The last drop of […]
EU Aviation Disaster: Will Von der Leyen Rubber-Stamp Biggest Aviation Greenwashing in Decades?
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:40:01 +0000
The European Commission is about to stick a green investment label on thousands of highly polluting planes. It must reverse course.
EU Dodges Deadline For Polluting Trucks In Setback For Climate Goal
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:35:32 +0000
Without more stringent targets, there will be a glut of polluting diesel lorries still on our roads for decades to come.