July has been a big month for Europe and not just because of the Euro Championships. After two years of excruciatingly hard work the Commission has published its epochal new climate package. The EU’s...
When Henry Ford started to build his first car assembly line, horse dung was still littering the streets. What he invented in 1913 was not a new technology. Ford understood that mass production would...
The EU’s ‘green’ fuels law has been an unmitigated disaster. Instead of pushing sustainable alternatives, it led to widespread deforestation, habitat loss and biodiesel emissions greater than the...
‘When it rains in Paris, it drizzles in Brussels’ is a famous Belgian proverb. It is testimony to the French influence on Belgian policymaking. Similarly, if you want to weather the storms of...
The UK government’s Decarbonising Transport plan, announced on the same day as the EU Fit for 55 review, goes further than the EU Commission’s proposals with a bold target to have only zero-emissions...
It took many years of campaigning, and the efforts of people like Greta Thunberg for politicians to finally start paying attention to aviation emissions; a trio of EU laws and reforms is now supposed...
Yesterday the European Commission presented a completely revamped infrastructure law to make charging anxiety a thing of the past. As part of the Fit for 55 climate package, EU countries will be...
The EU has launched its new sustainable finance strategy. For those relatively unfamiliar with the topic, but even for those who work in the sector, it’s a jungle of acronyms: SFDR, CSRD, ESG,...
The European Commission just unveiled a host of regulatory measures, dubbed the Fit-for-55 package in typical Brussels fashion, aimed at more than halving the block’s emissions by 2030 compared to...
On the 14th July the European Commission will propose what may well be the most important climate legislation anywhere, ever. On the line in this bumper package is Europe’s ability to decarbonise...
If you want to stay up to date, subscribe to the T&E Bulletin.
Subscribe