Airline calls on competitors to scrap old aircraft
The low-fares airline easyJet has called on European governments to remove almost 700 of the oldest and most polluting aircraft from active service by 2012.
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Biofuels consultation launched
The Commission has launched its official consultation on biofuels, amid growing concern among policy makers that the environmental benefits are less clear cut than previously thought. Governments, businesses, NGOs and private individuals have until 4 June to make comments, after last month’s publication of a consultation document. Legislative proposals to set EU targets for increasing the use of biofuels in transport are expected later this year.
IPCC says climate change can be beaten by 2030 if measures are taken now
Two IPCC reports have highlighted the damage being done by global warming and what measures need to be taken to tackle it.
Legal judgements give teeth to EU protection
Two legal judgements have suggested that the battle to use EU environmental laws to stop a new motorway ruining Poland’s Rospuda Valley may be working.
No to gigaliners
T&E is calling on the EU to make road user charges that include the full costs of pollution and congestion a prerequisite for the introduction of longer and heavier lorries, or 'gigaliners', now being trialled in several European countries.
IMO needed to improve shipping's environmental status
Editorial by João Vieira
Shipping is sometimes the forgotten means of transport. There seems to be a general assumption that it is generally environment-friendly, although that may be mainly because the contribution of ships to climate change, air and marine pollution has been outside public debate for many years. But there are signs that this may be changing, which could be good news for shipping, as people are starting to wake up to the environmental damage caused by maritime transport.
The drive for low-carbon transport fuels
Environmental organisations greeted the Commission's proposal for introducing a climate target for transport fuels, published in January, with particular warmth. In a Special Feature published with this month's T&E Bulletin find out more about the significance of the proposal and what work still needs to be done to make it work.
Cautious commitment to 10% biofuels by 2020
Europe’s heads of government have ratified a commitment for biofuels to have at least 10% of the road transport fuels market by 2020.
America set for cleaner cars after historic judgement
America’s highest court has given a judgement that could change the way the USA views climate change.
ETS aviation gains likely to be wiped out by stage one ‘open skies’ deal
EU transport ministers have approved a partial liberalisation of transatlantic air travel, which T&E says is “a serious setback to EU climate policy”.