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Paris: Don’t leave out planes and ships
This blogpost was first published in EurActiv.The UNFCCC negotiating text took an important step forward last week with the inclusion in the text of wording calling for the setting of emission...
View ArticleEU Energy Union: good intentions, short on specifics, backtracking on trucks
The European Commission’s Energy Union strategy for cleaner cars and electrification of transport is welcome but the removal of CO2 standards for trucks and buses is a disappointing concession to...
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T&E’s next 25 years will spark Europe’s electric shift
As many of you know, T&E will mark its 25th anniversary with a celebratory exhibition and debate at Brussels’ Royal Museums of Art & History on 26 March and you are all invited. But now I have...
View ArticleTransport White Paper: efficient, electric, priced, and international
Speech delivered by Jos Dings, T&E director, at the European Parliament Transport Committee’s hearing on the White Paper on Transport on 17 March 2015.Type of publicationConsultation...
View ArticleVehicle fuel efficiency standards can help EU countries halve their climate...
Europe can only meet the climate targets Heads of State agreed on for sectors outside the Emissions Trading System (ETS) if it sets fuel efficiency standards for new cars, vans and lorries by 2025 or...
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France gifting €1bn a year in aviation subsidies – study
The French government, which hosts this year’s critical COP21 climate change conference, is losing around €1 billion a year in revenue because it exempts domestic air transport from energy and carbon...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament urges EU governments to include aviation and shipping in...
The heads of 7 of the 8 political groups of the European Parliament's environment committee wrote today to the Environment Ministers of the 28 EU countries urging them to include international shipping...
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Letter to the Commission to include ambitious direct vision requirements for...
In this joint letter, Eurocities, Polis, European Transport Safety Council and Transport & Environment call on the Commission to include ambitious direct vision requirements for lorries in the...
View ArticleNatural gas vehicles an expensive, ineffective way to cut car and truck...
Increasing the use of natural gas in cars and trucks would be largely ineffective in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution, a new independent study finds. There are no GHG savings...
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Transport is now Europe’s biggest climate problem - EEA data
Greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector have grown for the first time since 2007 while those of other sectors of the economy have decreased, data released today by the European Environment...
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2015 Annual Report: How T&E’s cleaning up transport
Our job is to research, debate and campaign with the facts available. But in 2015 our work also saw us expose the real impact of transport on our climate, environment and health. Check out T&E's...
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Dieselgate continues: the startling contrast between two sides of the Atlantic
Against the backdrop of the eye-watering $15 billion settlement for Volkswagen in the US, the silence from the company in the face of calls for compensation in the EU is deafening. Here VW claims it...
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EU vehicle type approval: independent, robust and transparent
When? Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 19:00 to 21:00This dinner, kindly hosted by Christel Schaldemose MEP and Ivan Štefanec MEP, will aim to contribute to the current Parliament and Council...
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Europe puts up good plan for cleaner transport but forgets to sell it
Our work area, European policy for cleaner, smarter transport, is not one that typically sets newspaper headlines alight. For starters, acronyms like ILUC (indirect land-use change, from biofuels) or...
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French government told to handover data after Renault ‘cover up’ claims
The French government is under pressure to handover data from its Dieselgate inquiry after criticism that its final report omitted details about a suspicious Renault model’s performance in emissions...
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Voluntary, phased-in climate deal on the horizon for aviation
A deal to curb aviation’s climate emissions is shaping up be voluntary for the first six years, will be based on offsets, and will lack essential environmental safeguards. The details of the proposal...
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MEPs want shipping included in 2030 emissions target through ETS ‘climate fund’
A proposal to include emissions from shipping in the EU’s 2030 emissions reduction target through the EU emissions trading system (ETS) has gained cross-party support among MEPs. The amendment calls...
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Arrival status - did ICAO deliver an effective aviation climate deal?
When? Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 12:00 to 14:30After 3 years of work, ICAO is due to agree a global climate deal for international aviation at its triennial assembly Sept 27 - Oct 7th. The outcome...
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Lawmakers join call for EU to propose fuel efficiency standards for trucks now
A cross-party group of MEPs has called on the European Commission to table an ambitious proposal to reduce carbon emissions from trucks as soon as possible.Transport ModeFreightLorriesPolicy...
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The true scandal of Dieselgate is regulatory capture, T&E says
National regulators turning a blind eye to vehicle test cheating is the main culprit for the 29 million ‘dirty’ diesel cars on European roads today. On the occasion of the Dieselgate anniversary...
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