Carlos Calvo Ambel – Transport & Environment

Broken promises: the case for regulation

Diane Vitry — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:49:21 +0000

Let’s be honest, all of us working in the Brussels bubble do like a good piece of legislation. This town is often accused of over-regulating. Brexiteers loved to wave that flag. Closing this year, I have decided to do a reality check and see if, when looking at the next Commission, we should only focus on implementation or indeed push for new regulations. Something is clear, the world is not going...

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Dear Commission, stick to your word and legislate on better ticketing

Sam Hargreaves — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:09:48 +0000

As a good policy freak, I call Brussels home. However, I was born and raised in Seville (Southern Spain), where family and friends still live, and where there are double the number of sunshine hours than in the EU bubble. On average, I head south three times a year. Being well aware of aviation’s climate impact, I aim for these trips to be as sustainable as possible.

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A climate wishlist to the Commission

Sam Hargreaves — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:36:23 +0000

With the winter holidays approaching, that time of the year when we look back is here. In 2021, the Fit for 55 package created the ideal framework to reduce emissions in the transport sector: the phase-out of the combustion car, increased national climate targets and a new carbon pricing mechanism for ships and cars. In 2022, climate NGOs around the bloc worked hard to make sure that those...

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The triple strike against the combustion engine car

Sam Hargreaves — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:33:26 +0000

While in Covid times it often seems as if time is standing still, it’s incredible how much has changed on climate this year. We started the year still reeling from the full on attack launched by the Commission in 2019 on national climate targets. Yet, somehow we ended up with a triple strike against oil and the internal combustion engine (ICE). As Christmas season is approaching...

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Freight modal shift to rail can contribute to decarbonising land freight

fbh-import — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:58:05 +0000

Increased rail freight modal share in the EU could reduce land freight emissions by 4% by 2050 compared to a business-as-usual scenario (see graph below). T&E has used its new European Union Transport Roadmap Model (EUTRM) tool to calculate the emissions reduction potential of modal shift. To achieve it, the share of rail freight in the EU would need to be increased from today’s 18% to 23%.

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