NEW: Electric cars are expected to reach up to 24% market share in 2025, giving carmakers a clear path to comply with EU clean car rules, new T&E analysis shows. While some manufacturers call for flexibility over their CO2 targets, forecasting suggests that BEVs will contribute 60%, on average, of the CO2 reduction that carmakers need to achieve for the EU emissions targets next year. Modelling based on sales in the first half of 2024 and sales forecasts shows an expected rapid growth in EV sales over the next year. This will be partly driven by seven new fully electric models under €25,000 which have arrived or are coming on the market in 2024 and 2025. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed in July that the zero-emissions car target will go ahead in 2035. Last week the German government ruled out watering down the 2025 target. It’s time for carmakers to go all in on BEVs, while EU and national lawmakers should do more to support EV demand with policies such as corporate fleet targets, charging masterplans and social leasing schemes. Read the full report at the link in our comments. #ElectricCars #CleanCarRules #CarCO2Targets
Transport & Environment (T&E)
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Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and energy.
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Transport & Environment (T&E) is Europe’s leading advocate for clean transport and energy. Our mission is to fight for an affordable zero-emission transport system that benefits both people and the planet. Since our formation in 1990, we’ve shaped some of Europe’s most important climate and environmental laws, such as the creation of the world’s largest carbon market for aviation and the EU agreement to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars and vans by 2035.
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🚛 How are cities and companies transforming urban logistics? A new report by Clean Cities sheds light on the shift towards zero-emission freight. With over 100 cities and 182 companies across Europe making commitments to reduce transport emissions, we’re seeing a wave of innovation in urban logistics. Companies are embracing sustainable solutions like electric delivery vans and pedal-powered cargo bikes. Emerging practices such as microhubs and optimized delivery routes are also transforming how goods move through cities. 📦 Learn more about how these trends are shaping the future of urban logistics in the full report ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/erhrtAy7 #ZeroEmissions #GreenMobility
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T&E's Victor Thévenet was on board a special direct EU-Rail train from Brussels to Berlin last week. This was a great initiative to bring rail stakeholders to Berlin for #InnoTrans2024. But unfortunately this direct route does not exist for travelers today. Next step: creating a daily connection between Brussels and Berlin in both directions. Will Deutsche Bahn rise to the challenge?
𝐄𝐏𝐅 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐳 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐔-𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 #InnoTrans2024 EPF had the pleasure of participating in the EU-Rail train journey to Berlin for InnoTrans 2024. 🚆 As part of the event, we organised an interactive quiz that brought together experts from across Europe’s rail sector. The quiz featured 19 questions on topics such as: accessibility, passenger rights, innovation, and cross-border rail travel. With a fun, collaborative format, the quiz encouraged teamwork and sparked meaningful discussion on key passenger-focused challenges. (More details: https://shorturl.at/wvaX5) We also joined a panel discussion titled "How can rail bring more value to passengers?" where our Senior Researcher, Delphine Grandsart, highlighted the need for a user-centric approach in rail services. Addressing passenger needs like reliability, ease of use, and value for money is essential to driving a modal shift towards rail as the core of sustainable, multimodal mobility. (More information: https://shorturl.at/jARsD) 🧠 Feel like testing your own rail knowledge? Take our quiz in just 5 minutes and see how you score! https://shorturl.at/C2F9d #RailTransport #PassengerRights #SustainableMobility
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Apostolos Tzitzikostas is to be the EU's first ever SUSTAINABLE transport commissioner. Great. But why is transport taken out of #ribera's clean transition team? Transport is EU's biggest source of carbon pollution. How to change this? To start we need to set clear objectives 🥇 30% less CO2 and #oil by 2030 🥈 Share of electrification from 0.3 to 8% 🥉 Share of #shipping & #aviation efuels from 0 to 2% Then we need the right governance. So yes, #transport, #energy, #climate belong under #teresaribera not under #Meloni's man in the Commission*. Finally, we need action: 1️⃣ Champion #EVs #electrification. Make all EU #companycars electric and build a world class #charging network 2️⃣ Modernise EU #rail: #ticketing, #competition and yes, targeted investment. But in that order. 3️⃣ Make aviation a #climatehero by radically reducing #contrail pollution - this can be a huge, cheap, short term win. 4️⃣ A #transportinvestment plan that shifts money to puts #digital and #energy first, not new transport infra. 5️⃣ A clean #port strategy to electrify port operations, build efuel / #ammonia bunkering as part of wider industrial transformation 6️⃣ An industrial strategy to scale #efuels, for aviation and shipping, combining ambitious #FuelEU, #Refuel, #RED and support (#ETS, #Innovationfund) action 7️⃣ A ban on the use of fossil fuel powered #privatejets in Europe. 8️⃣ A limit on car size in the EU's weights & sizes law to end the race to ever heavier, larger #SUVs 9️⃣ High ambition in #ICAO and #IMO, but not at the expense of EU action. Herald RuijtersMohammed Chahim Bas Eickhout Virginijus Sinkevičius Electrification Alliance Diederik Samsom Kathleen Van Brempt Transport & Environment (T&E) * honestly, I have no strong views on #raffaeleFitto. Many say he's smart and reasonable. But #Meloni and her government are attacking every #GreenDeal transport law. So it's weird to make her man responsible for it. https://lnkd.in/eh5-XYfd
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Today CEOs and executives from Volvo Cars, Uber, leasing giant Ayvens and over 40 other companies called on the EU to not re-open the 2035 zero-emission target for cars and vans. In a public declaration, the automotive, clean tech, transport and energy companies say the target provides much needed investment certainty on the future of the automotive industry in Europe. The signatories, including executives from Polestar, Rivian, Iberdrola, A.P. Moller - Maersk, Tesco and IKEA’s largest franchisee, Ingka Group, said the target is feasible and necessary and gives companies a clear direction. These companies are strongly committed to the EU’s climate neutrality goal and many have invested massively to make it a reality. The new EU Commission and MEPs must establish the regulatory stability companies need by not wavering on the 2035 phase-out of the sale of combustion engines cars. Instead, they should focus on implementing targeted industrial policy and investment support for a sustainable local battery value chain, rolling out charging and clean electricity supply, greening corporate fleets, and re-skilling workers for the electric transition. Read the declaration ➡️ Industryfor2035.org #CarsCO2 #EuropeanIndustry
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Despite having had years to prepare, carmakers are trying to weaken 2025 emissions targets, and are even demanding lawmakers bring forward the review of the 2035 targets agreed only last year. But European carmakers have numerous pathways to comply with the targets without facing fines. The EU must allow some time to see how the swath of affordable EVs on their way in 2025 perform in the market before reviewing the law. Read the letter from Julia Poliscanova in the Financial Times 👇 https://lnkd.in/gqGVFiGx
Letter: Europe’s carmakers must not stall on emissions goal
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Eco-scores for vehicles are key to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 while incentivising ‘Made in EU’ electric cars. As tailpipe emissions decrease and electricity decarbonises, attention must turn to embedded carbon emissions from materials and production processes, which tend to account for between 50% to 60% of lifecycle emissions of EVs compared to only around 10% for combustion cars. That’s why embedded emissions are becoming the next frontier in our battle against climate change. We’ve signed a joint letter with BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation, Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Institut Mobilités en Transition urging the European Commission to put eco-scores in place. Read the letter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epSqc_rZ #EcoScore #EVTransition #MadeinEU
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How can the EU position itself as a leader in the global EV competition? And what role will Central and Eastern Europe play in this process? T&E's Freight and Climate Director Sofie Defour will be speaking at #KNM 2024 this Thursday about how Europe can achieve its clean mobility goals outlined in the Green Deal through strong industrial policy, steady CO2 standards, comprehensive charging infrastructure and more. Learn more about the event ➡️ https://lnkd.in/da3hcGVC #CEE #GreenDeal
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Good news for sustainable investing: ING says it will stop financing clients who are failing to reduce their climate impact. This is a great example of a large bank finally stepping up to take responsibility for their role in addressing climate change. The Dutch bank assessed 2,000 of its largest clients based on their plans for reducing their carbon footprint, arguing that climate change poses societal and financial risks. CEO Steven van Rijswijk specifically called out shipping and aviation clients, saying that lending for traditional fossil fuel-intensive vessels would become more risky in the future when these transport modes will need to be transitioning to cleaner technologies. ING will also stop financing LNG export terminals in 2025. Now that one of the biggest banks in Europe has admitted that aviation and shipping are not “green” and not doing enough to decarbonise quickly, the European Commission should follow suit. The EU’s Taxonomy for Sustainable Investments still gives a green label to fossil fuel planes and ships. Other European banks should take inspiration from this ambitious statement. This means reconsidering their financial relationship with polluting industries, only supporting companies taking meaningful steps on their transition pathways and focusing on projects truly aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Read the full article in the Financial Times (paywall) 👇 https://lnkd.in/eXTJrhUj Opportunity Green #SustainableFinance #Taxonomy #ING