T&E Bulletin

News: Cars-CO2 deal 'unacceptable'

Italy has reacted angrily to last month's French-German deal on car emissions worked out by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.

July 22, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin | Pricing & Taxation

News: Transport's emissions still growing

The transport sector continues to be Europe's worst emitter of greenhouse gases, according to the European Environment Agency's official inventory report on emissions in 2006 released last month.

July 22, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | General Transport | T&E Bulletin

News: MEPs want better quality biofuels as EU's 10% target faces further attack

The European Parliament's environment committee says biofuels must be 60% better than fossil fuels if they are to count towards EU fuel consumption targets.

July 22, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

News: MEPs question commissioner

The new EU transport commissioner Antonio Tajani faced forceful questioning by MEPs as the successor to Jacques Barrot.

July 22, 2008 | General Transport | T&E Bulletin

News: EC still hesitant on ending 'externalities' ban

The Commission has proposed an end to the ban on member states charging lorry operators for the 'external' costs of road use, but it has put such a limit on the charges that may be imposed that T&E has described it as 'two steps forward but one step back'.

July 22, 2008 | Lorries & Road Freight | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin

News: First EU aviation deal confirmed – but is it a milestone or a missed opportunity?

The EU's first legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation has been formally agreed by MEPs and governments – but only after a series of compromises that caused T&E to describe it as 'a historic missed opportunity'.

July 22, 2008 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

Publications: T&E Bulletin 170 - July 2008

July 2008 edition of T&E Bulletin

July 22, 2008 | T&E Bulletin

News: Europe should reject France and Germany's 'disastrous' car CO2 pact

German chancellor Angela Merkel emerged victorious from negotiations with her French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this month on an agreement that could severely weaken the upcoming car CO2 law. T&E is calling on the other EU member states to reject the deal.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

News: Proposed tyre rules ignore worst offenders

The Commission's proposed new noise and energy efficiency standards for tyres are set to exclude the noisiest and most fuel-inefficient cars.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Noise | T&E Bulletin

News: EU money putting at risk protected nature site

A new analysis suggests that EU funding for transport projects is putting at risk more than a thousand nature areas in Europe that are supposedly under EU protection.

June 16, 2008 | General Environment | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin