Economics
ICCT: European passenger car registrations, January–May 2020
Some very interesting data on car sales in Europe. Truly worth looking at. Read here
Transport
Energy
Stephanie Searle – E-fuels won’t Save the Internal Combustion Engine
E-fuels are a prohibitively expensive and remarkably inefficient way to decarbonize the transportation sector. Stephanie Searle is Programme Lead at ICCT Cross-posted from the ICCT website Most claims about e-fuels are hard to swallow, including […]
Economics
Craig Dalzell – Corona Crisis: Supplies, chained
As with many of the other economic sectors, there was much that was going wrong with global shipping even before the virus hit. Covid-19 didn’t cause these cracks to appear, it merely flowed into them […]
Sustainability
Felipe Rodríguez – LNG Trucks: A Bridge to Nowhere
The majority of trucks that run on liquefied natural gas emit about the same amount of greenhouse gases as diesel trucks. Felipe Rodríguez is programme lead at ICCT Cross posted from the ICCT website Trucks […]
Aviation
Asbjørn Wahl – A Red-Green New Deal in Transport: Workers’ Power + Renewable Electrification of the Whole Economy
The EU”s transport sector is like most businesses run contrary to existing laws and regulations, but lack of control and enforcement makes it possible to operate on the side of the law (if the US […]
Climate Crisis
Grist: The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?
Wait, what? Even with the global economy at a near-standstill, the best analysis suggests that the world is still on track to release 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year, continuing […]
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Climate Crisis
Manifesto for a More Sustainable and Fairer Netherlands after Corona
We can make the Netherlands radically more sustainable and fair: five proposals for the Netherlands after Corona, signed by 170 academics. COVID-19 shakes the world to its foundations. The corona pandemic has already cost and […]
Energy
Grant Wilson, Noah Godfrey, Shivangi Sharma, Tom Bassett – We Analysed Electricity Demand and Found Coronavirus has Turned Weekdays into Weekends
This is probably indicative for most of Europe and gives a feel for the effects of the Corona Crisis in the energy sector. dcurzon / shutterstock Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Noah Godfrey, University of […]
Climate Crisis
Unearthed: Car industry calls for EU climate targets to be delayed due to Coronavirus
Car manufacturers have had years to prepare for this. A few weeks cannot throw a spanner in the works. This is absurd and opportunistic. Farmers are making similar claims with regard to the introduction of […]