The conclusion by EU states last Thursday sets out this year’s goals for European climate and energy diplomacy. Effectively, the document sets the priorities for the preparation of the next World Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai this November. After the last COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, it was to be expected that it would focus on […]
On Tuesday, the EU Parliament approved the trilogue results of three legislative proposals of the Fit for 55 package. The final vote in the Council is now all that is needed for the legislative proposals on:to appear in the Official Journal of the EU and become legally binding.With the new LULUCF regulation, new rules for […]
Emma Wiesner speaks German – very clear German, in fact, as the Swedish Renew MEP proved on Monday evening in the EU Parliament. The fact that Wiesner presented her language skills in such a high-profile way was due to the addressee of her words. She sits in Berlin, in the federal government – more precisely: […]
On Tuesday, the EU Parliament approved the trilogue results of three legislative proposals of the Fit for 55 package. The final vote in the Council is now all that is needed for the legislative proposals on:land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF),distribution of emission reduction targets among the individual member states, so-called effort sharingand the […]
On Monday, German Minister of Transport Volker Wissing announced a proposal on how e-fuels can be used in new combustion vehicles beyond 2035. He said that since the EU Commission’s proposals had not been sufficient, his house would now present “more concrete proposals”. While he was confident that this could be done as early as […]
The EU Commission will soon present a delegated act in which it will specify the technical assessment criteria for the taxonomy label for sustainable investments. The first draft of the document, which is available to our colleagues at “Contexte”, supplements a first version from 2021 and defines criteria for the aviation sector for the first […]
Numerous storage sites for injected carbon dioxide are supposed to be created in the EU countries by 2030. At least 50 million metric tons of CO2 should be able to be stored in them each year. This is what the EU Commission calls for according to a current version of the Net Zero Industry Act, […]
“Sunny weather outside, gloomy mood inside,” tweeted Ismail Ertug (S&D) on Tuesday after the trilogue on the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR). The legislative proposal is one of the few remaining dossiers in the Fit for 55 package and is intended to ensure that the framework conditions for low-emission transport are created across Europe. But […]
The EU Parliament’s Environment Committee voted on Wednesday on its position to reduce emissions of fluorinated gases. MEPs want to make the new requirements proposed by the Commission even stricter and completely ban products containing so-called F-gases by 2050. In sectors where it is technologically and economically feasible, it should also be mandatory to switch […]
A preliminary vote in the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) was spontaneously postponed on Wednesday. Actually, the EU ambassadors should have signaled their approval for the trilateral agreement on the revised fleet limits for passenger cars so that nothing unforeseen would happen during the final vote in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. But because the […]