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Signing off: After 13 years at T&E, have we made a difference?
It is with a heavy heart that I write this last editorial for the T&E Bulletin, having led this wonderful organisation since 2004. The obvious question to ask now is ‘Have we made a difference?’...
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Rail freight: the customer is always right
T&E have been managing a rail freight platform since 2015. This platform has provided us with the opportunity to meet with key stakeholders in rail and organise workshops to discuss some of the...
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Europe's love affair with biofuels is on the rocks
Can Europe fall in love with biofuels again? This was the question a big biofuels producer asked in his Valentine’s letter to EU policy makers. The occasion for his love letter was, of course, the...
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Does car sharing really reduce car use?
The average car sits unused for more than 90% of the time, carries on average just one and a half people and costs on average €6,500 a year to own and run. Each car occupies 150m2 of urban land and...
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Navigating our way out of the biofuels quagmire
The discussion about Europe’s biofuels policy is in full swing and the biofuels industry has assembled an impressive lobbying army to spread the gospel. Hardly a day goes by without the biofuels...
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The human cost of the EU biofuels policy – Hernán Bedoya
Environmental destruction costs human lives too. On 8 December an NGO friend phoned me up with the shocking news that Colombian community leader and land claimant Hernán Bedoya had been assassinated,...
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Will the EU call the palm oil nations’ bluff?
Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted on the renewable energy directive (RED). While the outcome was not ideal, we welcomed Parliament’s vote because it caps food-based biofuels, redirects...
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Is renewable gas another biofuels disaster waiting to happen?
Recently the gas sector has been playing up the role of or renewable gas in decarbonising the European Economy. The industry says biogas, biomethane, renewable hydrogen and renewable methane –...
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How to surf the green wave – and get a Green New Deal for transport
You could almost hear the sigh of relief going through the ‘Quartier Européen’ two weeks ago. Despite all the talk of a populist anti-EU insurgency taking Brussels by storm, that was not Sunday...
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LNG remains a deadend for decarbonising maritime transport
On 9 May 2019, a new cruise ship, called AidaNOVA called at the port of Barcelona. On the face of it, AidaNOVA was just another massive luxury cruiser. But the industry called it a game changer...
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Mit E-Fuels auf dem Holzweg - Berlin und Brüssel dürfen bei LKW nicht aufs...
Nach jahrelangem und schwerfälligem Streit um die Kraftstoffeffizienznormen scheint Daimler, der weltgrößte Lkw-Hersteller, in neue Dimensionen vorzustoßen. Letzten Monat verkündete das Unternehmen, ab...
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