Spain’s highest court has ruled that gas-powered cars can be excluded from benefiting from ‘scrappage’ schemes...
It is said that crises are great accelerators. And that is certainly the impression when you look at Europe’s urban landscape. In this Bulletin we have dispatches from France, Germany, the UK,...
By Rafal Bajczuk, senior policy expert at Electric Vehicles Promotion Foundation (FPPE)
There have been two major air quality benefits from the Covid restrictions...
As one of the countries worst hit by the Covid pandemic, some of the changes to society in Spain have been far-reaching. In terms of transport and air quality, there have been three notable...
By Yoann Le Petit and Pierre Dornier
A clear ...
Germany was one of the more successful European countries in keeping the number of victims of the coronavirus low, but that was achieved by a set of strict lockdown measures that had an impact on...
Italy has made many of the headlines during the coronavirus pandemic. In the early stages, it was Europe’s worst affected country, and the hot spot was around Milan, a city with a strong car...
By Francisco Ferreira at Zero (Association for the Sustainability of the Earth System in Portugal)
Some of the emissions reductions in Portugal during lockdown...
A majority of Europeans living in cities don’t want to see air pollution return to pre-Covid levels and support radical changes in transport in order to keep air quality improvements. Almost two...
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. The UK is amongst the countries worst affected by the coronavirus...