Improvements to public transport, the roll-out of cleaner vehicles and the provision of more efficient homes will be put at risk if Europe scraps a law that sets national climate targets.
Last month’s announcement by the UK government that it will end sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 has been welcomed by T&E. The confirmed phase-out date is part of a 10-point plan to tackle...
Aston Martin has found itself at the centre of a PR storm for not coming clean over its role in authoring a widely-debunked study that criticised electric vehicles. It has emerged that the report was...
Just 1% of the world’s population accounts for more than half of the CO2 emissions from passenger air travel, according to a new study. The lead researcher says flying is ‘an elite activity’ in which...
The EU is encouraging forest destruction in the Amazon and Latin America through its biofuels policy, a new study has found. T&E says the findings mean a change to EU biofuels policy is now a...
Tests on plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) show they pollute significantly more than carmakers claim. But despite a big part of the problem being inherent in the vehicles’ design, manufacturers are...
EU leaders could agree to increase the 2030 climate target next week, but any ramping up of ambition could be undermined by the European Commission's own climate roadmap, major NGOs have said. The...
With the EU set to overhaul the bloc’s aviation carbon market next summer, a new study has found that capping the number of pollution permits airlines can buy, while abolishing the free ones they...
Airline contrails warm the planet twice as much as aircraft CO2 emissions, according to a new EU study. The research from leading scientists finds non-CO2 emissions, such as nitrogen oxides, water...
The British government is expected to shortly announce an end to sales of petrol and diesel cars – and it could be as early as 2030. T&E says a UK phase-out date in the early 2030s is achievable...
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