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Uber will provide 50% of its rides in emissions-free vehicles across seven European capitals by 2025 and will aim for 100%, it announced today after an 11-month campaign by Transport & Environment and seven NGO partners. The world’s largest mobility platform pledged to clean up its act in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid and Paris in response to the #TrueCostOfUber campaign, which urged it to ditch dirty vehicles and replace them with electric cars.

European leaders have agreed on a historic EU financial deal to boost the European economy after the COVID-19 crisis. The new Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), as well as the negotiations on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) offer a unique financial opportunity to enable the decarbonisation of the road freight sector and the deployment of zero-emission trucks (ZET).

There’s no denying the EU’s budget deal is a historic achievement. For the first time the European Union will embark on a large-scale borrowing programme with the specific purpose of redistributing those funds to parts of the Union that are facing tough times. Eurobonds have been talked about for as long as the Union exists, but now they are happening, as T&E said they had to a few months ago.

Replacing a traditional ride-hailing car with an electric vehicle would deliver three times the environmental benefits and emission reductions, according to a new study. The finding comes as a new cost analysis by T&E shows that e-vehicles are cheaper to run for Uber drivers in many European cities, and Uber in Portugal says it will only take on new drivers if they have an EV.

Hydrogen can be a clean fuel of the future in sectors that are not suitable for electrification. That was one of the key messages from the European Commission as it published its hydrogen strategy earlier this month. T&E has given a cautious welcome to the plan, which it says rightly focuses on electrification as the key to decarbonising the economy while hydrogen offers a credible and scalable alternative to land-hungry biofuels in aviation and shipping.

Planes and long-distance ships - not cars - should be lead markets for the development of hydrogen fuel in the EU, the European Commission has said. Its hydrogen strategy, launched today, rightly commits to scaling up clean, renewables-based hydrogen for sectors which have no alternatives to decarbonise, green group Transport & Environment (T&E) said. But support for fossil-gas based hydrogen offers a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry and should be dropped.

During the next months, the political debate in Brussels and other capitals, will be dominated by the European Recovery Fund, a historic European financing programme totalling €750 billion to help European countries to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

On 8 July, the college of European Commissioners will formally adopt its EU Hydrogen Strategy to help decarbonise the EU economy. This strategy will be launched together with its Strategy on Smart Sector Integration. The hydrogen strategy will outline concrete steps the EU can take to support all aspects of hydrogen production. The integration strategy will aim to better incorporate different energy sectors that have lived separate lives until recently (in particular the power and transport sectors). In addition, a Clean Hydrogen Alliance - involving industry and other stakeholders - will be launched simultaneously to support the Commission in developing new initiatives to support the hydrogen sector.The announcement takes place in Brussels at approximately 12.00 CEST on Wednesday, 8 July 2020.T&E submitted its response to the Commission’s consultation on the EU Hydrogen Strategy and supported an NGO coalition letter calling on the Commission to focus on lead markets for sustainably produced, renewable hydrogen.

Only emissions-free vehicles, which include battery electric (BEVs) and hydrogen fuel cell trucks (FCEVs), can provide for a credible long-term pathway towards the full decarbonisation of the road freight sector.

European drivers burn 100 times more palm oil in their tanks than is in the 40 billion Oreo cookies consumed worldwide every year [1]. That’s according to new data that shows the amount of forest-ravaging palm oil used to make EU ‘bio’-diesel increased 7% last year, reaching an all-time high of 4.5 million tonnes.