Planes & Ships? Transport & Environment (T&E) gathered innovative industry players and policy makers to discuss the future of zero-emission shipping and aviation. By Silke Bölts, Aviation Policy Officer, Germany For decades, aviation and shipping have been locked into the same fossil-burning technology, with dire consequences for Europe’s climate goals. … [continued]
Renewable electricity will do the heavy lifting to decarbonise transport, but we still need the policies to make this happen, T&E says in a submission to the UK Transport Select Committee. Decarbonising transport can only be achieved through an end to the use of all fossil fuels, which must be … [continued]
T&E and Amnesty International welcome MEPs’ support for landmark batteries legislation. Green rules for batteries. Batteries produced or sold in the EU would need to comply with new environmental standards and checks to see if their raw materials are responsibly sourced, according to a draft law backed by the European … [continued]
Analysis shows Russian oil embargo possible, but Europe should not swap one despot for another. Europe is giving Putin $285 million a day to meet its dependence on imported oil, new data¹ shows. Transport & Environment (T&E), which carried out the study, calls for Europe to join a global embargo of Russian … [continued]
Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. That’s the conclusion from a new ranking assessing which of Europe’s urban areas are well placed to reduce their environmental impact. The Clean Cities Campaign (CCC) … [continued]
Some EU governments want to slow down the introduction of standards that would ensure batteries are low carbon, made with ethically sourced metals, and are fully recycled at the end of their life. As Europe and the rest of the world continues to reduce its use of fossil fuels on … [continued]
Four airlines — easyJet, Ryanair, Jet2, and Wizz Air — together with clean mobility group T&E are calling for equal rules to apply to all flights departing from European airports, regardless of their destination, in order for European measures to effectively decarbonise the aviation industry by 2050. As part of … [continued]
Lab results and employment analysis blow another hole in the well-funded campaign, which is aimed at lawmakers deciding on new EU car CO2 targets. Originally published on Transport & Environment. A concerted campaign by lobbyists to save the combustion engine and delay the switch to electric vehicles was dealt a blow … [continued]
€41.15 billion of recovery funds should go for a sustainable recovery of the Italian transport sector. Focus on urban and regional mobility, electrification of transport and ecological transition of the automotive industry.
