The EU has launched its new sustainable finance strategy. For those relatively unfamiliar with the topic, but even for those who work in the sector, it’s a jungle of acronyms: SFDR, CSRD, ESG, Taxonomy, DNSH, GAR/GIR etc. But to an environmentalist, finance is essentially sustainable if it excludes fossil fuels, combustion engines, and the destruction [...]
The European Commission just unveiled a host of regulatory measures, dubbed the Fit-for-55 package in typical Brussels fashion, aimed at more than halving the block’s emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Most of the headlines focused on sexy topics like revamped targets for solar and wind energy, or new mandates for the production of [...]
On the 14th July the European Commission will propose what may well be the most important climate legislation anywhere, ever. On the line in this bumper package is Europe’s ability to decarbonise transport. Failure on transport, would mean failure for the entire package. Success, on the other hand, would supercharge action in an area that [...]
By Manon Molliere, Emobility Data Analyst at T&EThis brief is the third in a series of short analytical pieces in which T&E will share fresh insights related to the revision of the car CO2 standards. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeCars Source: transebvnews
Too expensive, too little range, too heavy. These are the three common myths about battery-powered trucks, which are at best, inaccurate and, at worst, plain wrong. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeFreight Source: transebvnews
Originally published in EuractivThe recent landmark ruling in the United Kingdom that air pollution caused by toxic emissions from cars, buses and trucks, was responsible for the death of 9 year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, should send a very clear message: failure to urgently address the causes of the toxic air that millions of us are forced [...]
Originally published on EuractivBy Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello, coordinator of Earthworks’ Making Clean Energy Clean, Just & Equitable initiative and Alex Keynes, clean vehicles manager at Transport & Environment.From the deadly Brumadinho tailings dam collapse in Brazil, which took the lives of nearly 300 people, to the destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites at Juukan Gorge in Australia, [...]
Belgium is a small country, known for its beer, chips and impossibly complex political structure. It is much less well known for being the fifth biggest car market in the EU, bigger than the Netherlands and Poland. Why? Belgium’s high tax system rewards workers with an almost tax free right to drive. Offering a luxury [...]
This brief is the second in a series of short analytical pieces in which T&E will share fresh insights related to the revision of the car CO2 standards.When designing the first car CO2 emission targets in early 2000s, regulators introduced a mass-adjustment mechanism which relaxed the CO2 target for carmakers that sell heavier-than-average cars. In [...]
This brief is the first of a series of short analytical pieces in which T&E will share fresh insights related to the revision of the car CO₂ standards.The current EU-wide car CO₂ targets are not bad on paper: they require a reduction in CO₂ emissions from new cars of 15% from 2025, and 37.5% from [...]