The EU’s directive on 'green procurement' of public service vehicles has been approved.
It commits any authority or body buying vehicles for public transport contacts ‘to take into account lifetime energy and environmental impacts, including energy consumption and emissions of CO2 and of certain pollutants’. How enforceable the directive proves to be may depend on whether NGOs can monitor the decisions of local public transport operators.
T&E analyses the impact of the European Commission’s proposal on future electric car sales and CO₂ emissions.
How to fix the proposal's major flaws.
The Greenland crisis showed that if Europe shows spine, it can be strong. It must now apply that lesson to industrial policy, or suffer the consequenc...