Climate Change & Energy

Publications: T&E Position Paper on Aviation Ticket Taxes

This position paper has been published in response to enquiries from stakeholders and the media about the potential for environmental benefits resulting from the French government’s proposed “airline-ticket solidarity tax” which will be introduced in July 2006 to raise development funds.

March 1, 2006 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation

News: Car makers shift CO2 responsibility to oil

Reports from the Commission suggest Europe’s car makers have succeeded in passing part of the responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions for new cars onto oil companies.

December 20, 2005 | Cars | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy

News: CARS 21 High Level Group: EU Weakens Clean Car Strategy

The CARS 21 'high-level group' of car industry executives and European Commission officials has failed on its promise to deliver a “clean” and “lean” strategy for new cars, says the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E). The ten-year road map for European car regulation published in today's final report contains no new policies to combat rising overall emissions and several existing policies are set to be weakened.

December 12, 2005 | Cars | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy

Publications: T&E Position Paper on the Proposal for a Council Directive on Passenger Car Related Taxes

Making car taxes work for the environment. T&E position paper on the Proposal for a Council Directive on passenger car related taxes’ (COM(2005)261 final)

December 9, 2005 | Cars | Pricing & Taxation | Climate Change & Energy

News: EU Has Rolled Over on Emission Controls

Jos Dings, Director of T&E writes in today's Financial Times:
It should not only be the green movement that is "angered by the likelihood that the motor industry will miss its 2008 target for carbon reduction". Car drivers, politicians and supporters of Europe's technology sector should also be worried.

December 8, 2005 | Cars | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy

Publications: Fuel efficiency of commercial aircraft: An overview of historical and future trends

Report by the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, on behalf of T&E, on the fuel efficiency of aircraft.

December 7, 2005 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy

News: Report Shows Fifty-Year Failure of Aviation Industry to Improve Fuel Efficiency

Today's commercial passenger planes are no more fuel-efficient than their equivalents of fifty years ago and aviation industry claims of a 70% improvement in fuel-efficiency are false. These are the main conclusions of a report by the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) published today by the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) and released on this year’s environment-themed International Civil Aviation Day.

December 7, 2005 | Aviation | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy

Publications: Cleaner is Cheaper

Why European climate policy for cars is failing, and what can be done about it (T&E 05/05)

November 29, 2005 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy

News: Speech by Jos Dings to the DaimlerChrysler / UNEP 4th Environmental Forum

Download the speech.

November 17, 2005 | Cars | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy

News: European Parliament Calls for Legally-Binding CO2 Limits for Cars

The European Parliament has called for legally-binding targets for average CO2 emissions from new cars of 80-100g/km in the 'medium term'. The Parliament has also recognised that the existing voluntary agreement between car makers and the European Commission is unlikely to meet its target of average 140g/km by 2009.

November 16, 2005 | Cars | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy

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