Connie Hedegaard, the former Danish climate and energy minister, is the first EU commissioner to lead the newly created Directorate General for Climate Action. In her hearing before the European Parliament she said that she want´s to push forward the inclusion of international shipping into the European Emissions Trading System from 2011. This means the [...]

In an article Euractiv reports that the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission based on a new study favours charging trucks for the pollution they cause because the overall benefit outweighs the limited negative price impact on consumers.

As the heat in the Bella Center increases in the run up to the climax of the conference on Thursday and Friday the number of climate celebreties is increasing. Bianca Jagger just gave her welcoming words to the side event “Major transport emission reductions: What is possible? At what cost?” organised by the International Transport [...]