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Breakthrough on efforts to reduce emissions from aircraft

Icao proposes ‘metric’ but NGOs still worried whether work will have a real impactEfforts to tackle emissions from aviation have taken a hesitant step forward, with the news that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) has endorsed an expert group’s recommendation on the way to measure fuel burn in flight. The recommendation is for a ‘metric’ system and test cycle to be the basis for setting fuel efficiency standards for new aircraft, but many concerns remain.

Airlines against obligatory biofuels

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Airlines have told the Commission that making the use of biofuels in aviation obligatory would harm their competitiveness.

EU and the environment: growing up is hard to do

Opinion by Jos Dings - T&E Director Pick up a newspaper these days and it looks as if the EU is about to start a political world war.

Airbus shows an industry refusing to see future

Letter published by T&E Director, Jos Dings, in today's Financial Times.

T&E welcomes EU plans to raise minimum diesel taxes

Transport & Environment has welcomed a European Commission proposal to raise minimum diesel tax rates in Europe, as new research shows the average fuel tax in Europe has declined in real terms by 10 cents a litre since 1999.

Bunker fuels should be put back on the UNFCCC agenda, environmental NGOs say

A group of environmental NGOs is urging the EU to make all possible effort to put bunker fuels back on the agenda of the next meeting of the United Nation
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will take place in Bangkok next April.

Sowing the seeds of smarter transport policy

Opinion by Jos Dings - T&E Director
Did we miss something? Last year, the European Commission didn’t propose a single new legislative measure to clean up transport. To be fair, it has been spending most of its time worrying about the future of the Eurozone. As a result, for T&E this was the sort of year where seeds for smarter transport policy were sown. We’re optimistic that next year could bring a decent crop of positive changes.

Aircraft energy efficiency has not improved in a decade

A new study on aviation says the pace of improvements in aircraft energy efficiency is very slow, and no progress has been made in the last decade. It calls for a carbon dioxide emissions standard for aircraft already in production.

Car CO2 limits now law

The EU's first legislation to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new cars has entered into law.

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