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First target for transport in EC sustainability strategy

Posted by Jan Prahm February 14th, 2011

Friday, February 11, 2011
T&E published that the Commission has published its sustainability strategy for the EU, and it includes a cautiously-worded target for transport to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% in the period 1990-2050. This is the first time Brussels has put an overall reduction target for the [...]

EU droht internationalen Fluglinien mit Landeverbot

Posted by Jan Prahm September 27th, 2010

22.09.2010
Streit um Emissionshandel

Die EU-Kommission macht im Kampf gegen Schadstoffemissionen Druck auf ausländische Airlines. Wie aus einem internen Papier hervorgeht, soll gerade asiatischen und amerikanischen Fluggesellschaften künftig ein Landeverbot im EU-Raum drohen, wenn diese sich nicht am Emissionshandel beteiligen. Der Vorstoß aus Brüssel sorgt nicht nur bei Betroffenen für Kritik.
BRÜSSEL. Ausländischen Fluglinien droht [...]

Car versus plane: travel and the climate change debate

Posted by Jan Prahm August 25th, 2010

Which is worse for global warming: travelling by car or by plane? According to the results of an EU-funded study, car travel increases global temperatures more than an air travel for the same journey but only in the long term. Travelling by plane, on the other hand, adversely affects short-lived warming [...]