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Europe must avoid tarring and feathering itself
This blogpost was first published on EurActivLast week, 21 Nobel peace and science laureates wrote to the European Commission urging them to immediately implement a law that recognises the higher...
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Shipping: the final EU climate frontier
This comment by Aoife O'Leary was first published by the European Voice. During the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summit, it is worth remembering that there is one huge...
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Biofuels industry learns an old lobby lesson: if you oppose the best, you get...
Last week energy ministers voted on the reform of the EU biofuels policy, but failed to come to an agreement. In what the Lithuanian presidency touted as a “fragile compromise”, the major changes to...
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Why do lorry-makers want to run-over the lorry of the future?
This blogpost was first published in the European Voice.Looking back at 2013, it has been a terrible year for those Londoners who decided to cycle around the city. 14 bike-users have been killed so far...
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Driving down vehicle emissions post-2020
This blogpost was first published by EurActiv.A vote in the European Parliament this week finalised CO2 targets for new cars in 2020. But the agreement also highlights a policy-chasm in plans to reduce...
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Vested interests, emerging interests, and obstacles for the green agenda
It’s a question I get asked a lot: so are you having any success in greening transport in Europe? I presume not. There are still an awful lot of cars around, aren’t there?Related Environmental Issue:...
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Canada, Big Oil and the Frequently and Quietly Delayed FQD
It’s March 2014, and we still don’t have a functioning Fuel Quality Directive - the only European law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuel. After 1181 days of delay, the lack of...
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Europe’s 2013 climate action: glass empty or almost half full?
2013 will – again – not go down in the history books as the year that Europe really got serious about tackling transport’s many environmental issues. On the headline level we actually see quite the...
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eMobility more than ‘just electric cars’
This article was first published in Parliament Magazine on 13 June 2014The Ukraine crisis highlights the urgent need to rethink Europe’s energy use and dependence. Two thirds of EU oil use is in...
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10 reasons why Europe and America DO NOT need business v state dispute rules
100,000 submissions to a public consultation is a lot on any subject, and particularly when the subject is the finer points of a proposed international trade deal. But having been extended for a week,...
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Climate and energy targets finally agreed, but what does it mean for transport?
Last week, the European Council composed of heads of states and governments reached an agreement on the EU’s climate and energy targets for post-2020. We ended up with three targets: greenhouse gas...
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Why doesn’t the ethanol lobby join the fight for cleaner fuels?
I am pleasantly surprised that the ethanol lobby accuses NGOs of lying only three times, not four. Rob Vierhout of ePure says that NGOs were wrong about the impacts of biofuels on global hunger, land...
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Global Deal or No Deal for Aviation?
This article was first published as a blog post on the Huffington Post UKIt is deal time in Montreal. Over the next two weeks 191 countries will decide what to do about climate-warming emissions. If...
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New Council voting means Germany not just Europe’s reluctant paymaster
On 1 November, some key provisions of the Lisbon Treaty enter into force: namely, the root-and-branch reform of the voting weights of member states in the Council of Ministers. Their impact will be...
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Europe crawls towards low-carbon transport
This article was first published by Oxford Energy ForumOn the back of the Paris climate deal and record high global temperatures, Europe is slowly crawling towards a 2030 low-carbon strategy for...
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Europe puts up good plan for cleaner transport but forgets to sell it
Our work area, European policy for cleaner, smarter transport, is not one that typically sets newspaper headlines alight. For starters, acronyms like ILUC (indirect land-use change, from biofuels) or...
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Why do lorry-makers want to run-over the lorry of the future?
This blogpost was first published in the European Voice.Looking back at 2013, it has been a terrible year for those Londoners who decided to cycle around the city. 14 bike-users have been killed so far...
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Driving down vehicle emissions post-2020
This blogpost was first published by EurActiv.A vote in the European Parliament this week finalised CO2 targets for new cars in 2020. But the agreement also highlights a policy-chasm in plans to reduce...
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Vested interests, emerging interests, and obstacles for the green agenda
It’s a question I get asked a lot: so are you having any success in greening transport in Europe? I presume not. There are still an awful lot of cars around, aren’t there?Related Environmental IssueAir...
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Canada, Big Oil and the Frequently and Quietly Delayed FQD
It’s March 2014, and we still don’t have a functioning Fuel Quality Directive - the only European law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuel. After 1181 days of delay, the lack of...
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