Léonore Moncond'huy’s rise to fame was fast and furious. The green mayor of Poitiers, a town in France, sparked nationwide uproar by saying that “aviation should no longer be part of today’s children...
The French government’s decision to ban (some) flights where a rail alternative under two and a half hours exists, has attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad. But it is little more than...
Originally published in Euractiv “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail”. These famous words by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow could well...
“The elites, they talk about the end of the world. Us, we talk about the end of the month”. This was the rallying cry of the gilets jaunes movement back in 2018. Although the movement was about much...
Originally published in Euractiv 2020 was the year electric car sales took off in Europe. Propelled by Europe’s car CO2 emission targets, the plug-in market more than tripled with sales volumes...
Toxic emissions from tailpipes of diesel and petrol cars have caused air pollution problems in European towns and cities for decades and cause tens of thousands of unnecessary, premature deaths each...
When Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida announced the closure of its Barcelona plant it came as no surprise. Protestors burned tyres and roads were blocked, but to no avail. Around 3,000 workers, and thousands...
First published in World Economic Forum By Saul Lopez, eMobility Manager at T&E; Maya Ben Dror, Project Lead, Future of Mobility at the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the World...
By Faïg Abbasov, shipping director at Transport & Environment & Aoife O’Leary, director for international climate at the Environmental Defense Fund This op-ed was first published in EurActiv...
When Donald Trump came to power back in 2016 we wrote an op-ed arguing Europe now had a big opportunity to reclaim its lost clean tech and climate leadership. It was counterintuitive at the time, but...
If you want to stay up to date, subscribe to the T&E Bulletin.
Subscribe