The European Parliament has given a boost to the take-up of electric buses, with a vote that strengthens the bus chapter of the European Commission’s Clean Vehicles Directive. But with elections to...
More weight has been added to the campaign to make large trucks safer for other road users, with a call by Germany’s transport minister that the proposed deadline for introducing safer technology be...
MEPs have sent a strong signal to EU governments that they want financial incentives to encourage the uptake of zero-emission trucks. In a vote in the full European Parliament last month, members...
Three years after the Dieselgate scandal was exposed, there are still 43 million highly polluting diesel cars on European roads. As EU industry commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska (pictured) said at the...
Powering Europe’s transport with fossil gas – widely known as ‘natural’ gas – would emit as much greenhouse gases as using petrol, diesel or conventional marine fuels, a new T&E report has found...
European governments should hold off for now on signing up to a UN carbon offsetting scheme for aviation, according to an official EU proposal circulated last week – a copy of which was published by...
MEPs will have the opportunity to ramp up the ambition of the EU’s first ever truck CO2 standards this week – a move sought by environmental groups and businesses alike. Tomorrow (14 November) the...
The international shipping community has made little progress to advance the global commitment made earlier this year to reduce the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is despite impassioned...
MEPs and EU governments resume negotiations today on new car CO2 reduction targets, but two changes to the proposal sought by the Council threaten to drastically weaken the ambition of the crucial...
Pressure on the European Commission to speed up the introduction of safer trucks has come from the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. In a letter to the industry commissioner Elzbieta Bieńkowska, Khan says...
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