Unilateral action by the EU to combat carbon dioxide emissions from shipping may have moved a step closer following a disappointing meeting of the International Maritime Organisation's working group on greenhouse gas emissions from ships in Oslo last month.

Jul 22, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping | T&E Bulletin

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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'.

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

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'.

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

T&E has responded robustly to an attempt by Abengoa Bioenergy, a multinational producer of bioethanol, to misuse its name and research in a series of lobbying advertisements published last week in major global publications including the Financial Times and The Economist.

Jun 26, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | Press Releases

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.

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

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.

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

MEPs are refusing to let proposed EU measures to reduce air transport's contribution to climate change be watered down. A vote last month keeps MEPs and ministers on a collision course over the terms by which aviation will enter the EU ETS.

Jun 16, 2008 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

The Commission has given a new hint that it is running out of patience with the International Maritime Organisation’s ability to tackle shipping’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

Jun 16, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping | T&E Bulletin

The MEP responsible for coordinating responses to the Commission’s Euro VI emissions standards for heavy vehicles says the standards should be stricter and come into force 18 months earlier than Brussels envisages.

Jun 16, 2008 | Air Pollution | Euro Standards | Lorries & Road Freight | T&E Bulletin

Two reports from Great Britain have cast doubt on the economic benefits of aviation.

Jun 16, 2008 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

The European Commission has launched a search for Europe’s greenest capitals.

Jun 16, 2008 | Air Pollution | Climate Change & Energy | General Transport | Public & Urban

Commission officials are trying to develop a model for predicting the environmental impacts of land use changes.

Jun 16, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

The mayors of three European cities have committed their areas to going beyond EU environment targets on reducing greenhouse gases and promoting renewable energy.

Jun 16, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Public & Urban | T&E Bulletin

The Commission wants people's views on how to improve consumer information in advertisements for new cars. The consultation comes after Brussels admitted the 1999 directive requiring fuel consumption and CO2 labelling of all new cars is 'not working as well as it could'. One of the options proposed is to make the rules on advertising information more strict.

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

Transport committee MEPs have voted for a set of rules that will require airline reservation systems to show both CO2 emissions and available alternative train journeys.

Jun 16, 2008 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Railways | T&E Bulletin

The rising price of oil is good news, according to the head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Speaking at the OECD's annual meeting, Angel Gurria said it would be 'disastrous' if the world’s richest nations cut fuel taxes or subsidised prices, as rising prices are a clear signal to consumers and companies to cut their fuel consumption.

Jun 16, 2008 | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin