As EU regulators prepare to include shipping in its carbon market, shippers are predictably causing a splash. They claim that including long-distance voyages in the EU’s emissions trading system...
EU lawmakers last month agreed on an economic recovery fund of an unprecedented scale. But now attention is turning to the 37% of the €672 billion package which must be invested in projects that...
An inquest in London has recorded what is believed to be the world’s first case of air pollution being given as a direct cause of death. Ella Kissi-Debrah, a nine-year-old girl who lived close to a...
Back in 2009 EU leaders proudly adopted the Renewable Energy Directive, setting flawed targets for the use of renewable fuels in the road transport sector. The resulting use of unsustainable crop-...
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...
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