The EU Commission wants to cut emissions from trucks significantly in the near future. Unlike for passenger cars, however, the Commission’s proposal presented on Tuesday does not initially envisage a total phase-out of the internal combustion engine for trucks.Manufacturers of trucks, buses and light trucks are to reduce the emissions of their new vehicle fleet […]
The International Ski Federation (FIS) not only calls itself climate-neutral but even climate-positive. What sounds exemplary presents a huge problem. Because no one knows what a positive climate balance means for the FIS and how the federation achieves it. If the federation itself knows, it does not show it transparently. More than 300 professional ski […]
Europe’s goal of emitting no more CO2 than can be stored by 2050 is to be achieved, among other things, by increasing the CO2 storage capacity of agricultural soils. Hopes for carbon farming are high – probably even too high. Timo Landenberger shows why the potential of natural CO2 storage methods may be overestimated and […]
A key part of the Fit for 55 package has cleared the next hurdle on its way to becoming law. On Wednesday, the EU ambassadors in the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States (Coreper) approved the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) by a clear majority. The trilogue result from December […]
In theory, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) applies to all importers to Europe: Anyone who pays a CO2 price on their products in the country of production gets this credited when calculating the climate tariff CBAM. This applies to all products covered by the CBAM: Cement, fertilizer, electricity, hydrogen, iron, steel and aluminum.In practice, […]
In theory, the climate tariff CBAM applies to importers to Europe: Anyone who pays a carbon price on their products will receive a corresponding deduction when calculating the carbon import fee. This applies to all products that fall under the CBAM: cement, fertilizer, electricity, hydrogen, iron and steel, and aluminum.This means in practice that, for […]
Denmark has awarded its first three licenses allowing companies to store CO2 under the seabed of the North Sea on a larger scale. The permits went to the TotalEnergies group and a consortium comprising the companies Ineos and Wintershall Dea, the Danish climate and energy ministry announced on Monday. This means that work could begin […]
Denmark has awarded its first three licenses allowing companies to store CO2 under the seabed of the North Sea on a larger scale. The permits went to the TotalEnergies group and a consortium comprising the companies Ineos and Wintershall Dea, the Danish climate and energy ministry announced on Monday. This means that work could begin […]
After long negotiations and a short negotiation break last week, the EU ambassadors decided over the weekend on an expansion of the partial embargo on Russian oil. Another price cap has been put on all Russian oil products in addition to the price cap on crude oil agreed on in December. Eric Bonse explains why […]
After twelve EU environment ministers wrote a letter last week opposing exemptions to the shooting of wolves, reactions have been mixed. Norbert Lins (EPP), Chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the EU Parliament (AGRI) called the letter an “attack on rural areas”. He supports the relaxation of the shooting regulations for wolves that roam in […]