Electric and hydrogen cars rely on renewable electricity that the EU can produce locally. But, instead, fossil-fuelled cars are driving Europe's addiction to oil. Crude oil and petroleum products represent around a third of the EU’s total energy consumption. The EU imports around 90% of the oil it needs and this share is expected to rise in the future. Two-thirds of the EU’s oil is used in transport.
Europe can’t decarbonise the world on its own. But it must develop policies that work so that other nations can copy and adapt them
T&E’s William Todts looks at whether a climate deal that potentially doubles the global biofuels market can be considered a good deal?
The European Commission missed a big opportunity to create a cleantech bazooka.