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Making the 2030 ESD fit for Paris
We all know the numbers by now. By 2030 GHG emissions in the EU need to drop 40% compared to 1990. For the traded sectors that means a 43% cut, for the non-traded sectors it requires a 30% cut – both...
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Europe crawls towards low-carbon transport
This article was first published by Oxford Energy ForumOn the back of the Paris climate deal and record high global temperatures, Europe is slowly crawling towards a 2030 low-carbon strategy for...
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Renewable electricity is a must to decarbonise land freight transport
This is the fifth in a series of eight snippets about how to decarbonise land freight by 2050. Based on a new T&E study, the series will culminate in a public debate in Brussels in September....
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How much can advanced biofuels contribute to decarbonising European road...
This is the sixth in a series of eight snippets about how to decarbonise land freight by 2050. Based on a new T&E study, the series will culminate in a public debate in Brussels on 27 September....
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Will power-to-liquid or hydrogen play a role in decarbonising land freight...
This is the seventh in a series of eight snippets about how to decarbonise land freight by 2050. Based on a new T&E study, the series will culminate in a public debate in Brussels on 27...
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Greetings from Planet Diesel
Last week I was in Munich for the so-called LKW-Gipfel; a summit of Europe’s truck industry executives. The Gipfel had an impressive line up. But before the CEOs of MAN, IVECO, Volvo and Scania...
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The human cost of the EU biofuels policy – Hernán Bedoya
Environmental destruction costs human lives too. On 8 December an NGO friend phoned me up with the shocking news that Colombian community leader and land claimant Hernán Bedoya had been assassinated,...
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Making palm oil a poster child for free trade would be a spectacular own goal
“As expected” mumbled Commission president Juncker when an aide passed him a note saying Trump had decided to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminium. The American administration had been...
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Why rewarding renewable fuels under the truck CO2 regulation would be a bad idea
The European Commission made its proposal in to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from heavy duty vehicles (HDVs) such as trucks and buses in mid-May. The file is currently being debated by the...
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Is renewable gas another biofuels disaster waiting to happen?
Recently the gas sector has been playing up the role of or renewable gas in decarbonising the European Economy. The industry says biogas, biomethane, renewable hydrogen and renewable methane –...
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EU emissions: will this be transport’s last lost decade?
EU greenhouse gas emissions fell 2% in 2018, according to the European Environment Agency’s preliminary estimates. After four years of stagnation and increases, this is good news especially since 2018...
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Mit E-Fuels auf dem Holzweg - Berlin und Brüssel dürfen bei LKW nicht aufs...
Nach jahrelangem und schwerfälligem Streit um die Kraftstoffeffizienznormen scheint Daimler, der weltgrößte Lkw-Hersteller, in neue Dimensionen vorzustoßen. Letzten Monat verkündete das Unternehmen, ab...
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