Anger at the growing environmental and local impact of massive cruise ships has resulted in two important moves to lessen the burden that mega-ships impose on ports. Barcelona has proposed electrifying the city’s docks to […]
The EU has ordered €8.5 million in illegal state aid to be recovered from Ryanair in the latest indication of how extensive public subsidies are to aviation, one of the fastest growing sources of carbon […]
European governments’ climate plans will not meet the EU’s 2030 decarbonisation target for transport, a new analysis shows. Yet the European Commission is letting national governments off the hook in refusing to criticise them, said […]
The EU economic policy results in systematically increasing destruction of the environment and climate disaster. Transport & Environment’s mission is to promote, at EU and global level, a transport policy based on the principles of […]
Anyone who takes the time to read about the Mercosur trade deal realises it is not in the interest of the environment, neither in Europe or South America. It is however excellent news for the […]
A pro-environment message was not to the fore of the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests in France, but it’s just possible they may have turned the tide Probably not, as this would be the first […]
This is typical for the EU. While citizens are trying to reduce their personal consumption of palm oil to protect the environment, the EU is increasingly using it in fuel. The new trade deal with […]
Cruise ships are choking Europe’s port cities with the biggest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emitting 10 times more sulphur oxides (SOx) than all of Europe’s 260 million cars, new research shows. Royal Caribbean Cruises, the […]
Germany is once again employing a national solution for its problems, exporting them to poorer EU nations – in this case polluting diesel cars made by the Volkswagen Corporation. Transport & Environment’s mission is to […]
T&E has joined forces with environmental NGOs in Spain to warn that a high-profile exercise in cleaning up shipping risks locking in fossil fuels for decades to come. The port of Barcelona has committed to […]
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