Climate Change & Energy

News: Hedegaard rejects airlines' call to postpone ETS

The Commission has dismissed suggestions by the aviation industry that the cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland that disrupted flights over north-western Europe last month should alter the terms under which aviation enters the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2012.

May 20, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Aviation | T&E Bulletin

News: Hidden annex calculates the indirect carbon footprint of a range of biofuels

The Commission has been forced to release an annex to a study on the impact of biofuels policy it had withheld. The hidden information suggests that biodiesel made from soy beans can emit four times more greenhouse gases than conventional diesel.

May 20, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

News: CO2-based car taxes

The number of EU member countries that have a CO2-based form of car taxation has increased to 17, according to figures from the European car makers association Acea.

May 20, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin

Publications: Keep tar sands out of Europe (European Voice advert)

Advert, published in the European Voice newspaper 29/04/2010, urging decision makers to ensure that the Fuel Quality Directive takes into account the real carbon footprint of tar sands.

May 4, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels

News: 05/05/2010 - Tar sands: undermining EU climate ambitions?

Join the debate on tar sands at this event in the European Parliament. Register here.

May 4, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Events

News: Risk of EU allowing tar sands oil

A group of 12 environmental groups, including T&E, has written to the climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, warning about the likely implications of new rules that will form part of the EU’s fuel quality directive.

April 19, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

News: Commission study establishes 'tipping point' for effectiveness of biofuels

A study undertaken by the European Commission into the potential for biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport has found that reductions can be made as long as biofuels are produced in small quantities, but after a certain point, the indirect effects of growing biofuel crops cause galloping increases in emissions.

April 19, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

News: Step forward on air pollution from shipping

The world’s largest marine Emissions Control Area (ECA) has been approved by the International Maritime Organisation. Ships operating in waters off the North American coasts will be forced to use dramatically cleaner fuel and technology. The move is likely to make it easier for the EU to designate ECAs in European waters.

April 19, 2010 | Air Pollution | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping | T&E Bulletin

News: Transport emissions likely to hold back EU climate effectiveness

The transport sector is likely to prevent the EU from reducing its total greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, according to the results of a project set up by the Commission.

April 19, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | General Transport | T&E Bulletin

News: 30% CO2 reduction through 80 km/h speed limit

Research by the respected Dutch consultancy CE Delft has shown that carbon dioxide emissions from road transport could be reduced by 30% if motorway speed limits in the Netherlands were set at 80 km/h.

April 19, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Lorries & Road Freight | T&E Bulletin | Vans | Noise

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