Delivering the Goods: Making Lorries Smarter, Safer and Greener
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 12:00 to 17:00
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Representation of Bavaria to the EU
Rue Wiertz 77
1050 Brussels
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Opposition that risks having no clean future for liquid transport fuels
Opinion by Jos Dings - T&E director
People who follow our work – and Europe’s environmental policy – a little bit will have noticed that two fuels-related draft laws keep dragging on without any apparent progress. The first one is what to do about indirect land use change effects of biofuels (key words: Iluc, biodiesel). The second is whether or not to give petrol and diesel from unconventional fossil sources a higher lifecycle greenhouse gas default value (key words: fuel quality directive, tar sands).
Smarter ‘grandfathering’ policy could be the breakthrough on biofuels
A report commissioned by T&E and two other environmental NGOs says the EU can deal successfully with the troublesome issue of indirect land-use change (Iluc) in biofuels production by taking a more enlightened approach to the principle of ‘grandfathering’.
You must respect democracy, angry MEPs tell Kallas
Plans by the European Commission to allow oversized lorries – known as ‘megatrucks’ – on Europe’s roads through a ‘reinterpretation’ of existing legislation without formal discussion have run into a roadblock.
Commission backs away from allowing megatrucks
The European Commissioner’s top transport official appeared to back away from plans to allow megatrucks to travel freely across European national borders at a stormy meeting yesterday afternoon of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee. Transport & Environment says the EU should scrap plans to boost longer and heavier lorries, and instead propose changes that would allow future lorries to be more aerodynamic and safer but without changing the length or weight of the load space.
Fears for climate with new government
Environmental groups in Spain fear climate and environmental protection could be downgraded following last month’s change of Spanish government.
MEPs want 2020 targets
The EU should impose a 20% reduction target for carbon dioxide emissions from the entire European transport sector by 2020, according to the European Parliament’s transport committee.
Warnings show time is running out for tackling climate change
Extreme warnings about the consequences of delaying action to tackle climate change have come from two sources in the last month. The International Energy Agency (IEA) says a global climate deal must be agreed by 2017 if global temperatures are to be kept under control, and an American institute says global warming is happening faster than the most pessimistic scenarios have predicted.
Transport badly lagging behind targets
The latest report on trends in European transport trends show the EU is highly unlikely to achieve its target of reducing transport emissions by 60% between 1990 and 2050 through technology alone.
Australia sets carbon price
Australia has voted to set a price on carbon emissions in an effort to make the country’s industry more energy-efficient.