Léonore Moncond'huy’s rise to fame was fast and furious. The green mayor of Poitiers, a town in France, sparked nationwide uproar by saying that “aviation should no longer be part of today’s children's dreams.” Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeAviationRelated Policy AreaInvestmentStandards Source: transebvnews
The French government’s decision to ban (some) flights where a rail alternative under two and a half hours exists, has attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad. But it is little more than symbolic. Instead of making the tough choices needed to clean up flying it is waging war against the irrelevant. It [...]
Originally published in Euractiv“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail”. These famous words by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow could well apply to the promotion of renewable energy in transport. If the only tool you have is the internal combustion engine, you [...]
“The elites, they talk about the end of the world. Us, we talk about the end of the month”. This was the rallying cry of the gilets jaunes movement back in 2018. Although the movement was about much more than the cost of driving, the proposed carbon tax did become a symbol for the disconnect [...]
Originally published in Euractiv2020 was the year electric car sales took off in Europe. Propelled by Europe’s car CO2 emission targets, the plug-in market more than tripled with sales volumes overtaking China. The question now is not whether the electric car is the future, but whether Europe will build on its first mover advantage and [...]
Toxic emissions from tailpipes of diesel and petrol cars have caused air pollution problems in European towns and cities for decades and cause tens of thousands of unnecessary, premature deaths each year. Now, as sales of zero emission electric cars surge across Europe and the end of the internal combustion engine is in sight, the [...]
When Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida announced the closure of its Barcelona plant it came as no surprise. Protestors burned tyres and roads were blocked, but to no avail. Around 3,000 workers, and thousands of others indirectly linked to the car plant, will be out of work by December. Or so they thought. It has just [...]
First published in World Economic ForumBy Saul Lopez, eMobility Manager at T&E; Maya Ben Dror, Project Lead, Future of Mobility at the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the World Economic Forum; Mary Loane Project Lead, Future of Mobility at the World Economic ForumWithout drastic action, emissions from mobility are on track to double by 2050 - [...]
By Faïg Abbasov, shipping director at Transport & Environment & Aoife O’Leary, director for international climate at the Environmental Defense FundThis op-ed was first published in EurActiv After thirty years of regulatory silence on international shipping emissions, the European Union (EU) has now committed to act by extending its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to cover the maritime sector. Not [...]
When Donald Trump came to power back in 2016 we wrote an op-ed arguing Europe now had a big opportunity to reclaim its lost clean tech and climate leadership. It was counterintuitive at the time, but by and large, this is exactly what happened. Four years on, Joe Biden is widely expected to be good [...]