Putting up tariffs on Chinese electric cars to protect the European industry was the wrong approach, German liberal Transport Minister Volker Wissing told Euractiv in an interview, promoting international competition.
The implementation of the EU’s carbon pricing scheme for road transport is crucial to drive the business case for electric and hydrogen trucks, Martin Lundstedt, CEO of the Volvo Group, told Euractiv in an interview.
New automation technology being pushed by plane makers will boost their bottom line at the expense of safety, the head of the European pilots’ union told Euractiv, whilst criticising the EU aviation regulator as overly close to business.
The European Commission’s draft proposal for a new category of cars running exclusively on e-fuels will de facto stop combustion engine cars from being sold after 2035 as the technical requirements cannot realistically be met, the head of the eFuel Alliance told Euractiv in an interview.
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is striving to make Europe's patchwork of national railway regulations fit for pan-European travel, working with national authorities to delete rules that hamper border crossings.
Uber went all in to break the French taxi sector, all the while dodging taxes and keeping drivers in high levels of precarity, Mark MacGann, the Uber Files whistleblower, told EURACTIV France in an exclusive interview.
Budget airline easyJet is banking on hydrogen aircraft to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, betting that the novel technology will revolutionise the environmental impact of flying in the coming decades.
Railways systems in Europe vary significantly across the EU, adding to the challenge of transporting goods across the single market. Historically, train systems developed nationally, but harmonising them is crucial to shift more transport to rail, the head of the EU Railway Agency told EURACTIV.
Following the financing of a new French innovation centre manufacturing electric vehicle batteries, EURACTIV France spoke about the opportunities and challenges for the sector with Ambroise Fayolle, vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Benoît Lemaignan, the centre's CEO.
Lawmakers have agreed to ban the sale of polluting vehicles from 2035. This represents a victory for the environment, but to be a true success, we must ensure that it is a victory for workers also, argues MEP Sara Cerdas.
Demand for biomass is only expected to grow in the coming decade, be it for bio-materials or bioenergy, while there is only so much biomass that can be produced sustainably, says John Bell, who points to a looming "availability gap".
TurkStream gas pipeline is a conduit for Russian interests in Southeast Europe and should be subject to sanctions, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, a former close associate of Boyko Borissov, who as prime minister ensured the construction of the Bulgarian section for a record time, told EURACTIV.
For Captain Laurent Alfonso, expert in European civil protection, global warming requires us to be "ready to intervene everywhere, all the time and for all kinds of disasters."
New electric and hydrogen propulsion technology promises to slash the climate impact of taking to the skies, but there are still a host of engineering challenges to overcome before these aircraft enter commercial circulation, Eric Dalbiès of Safran told EURACTIV.
The debate on climate change’s impact on health should be broadened, according to socialist MEP Sara Cerdas, as health costs for society if we do not act will be unimaginable. Sara Cerdas is a socialist MEP member of the European Parliament's …
The European Union could "triple" the amount of biomass produced on a sustainable basis over the coming decades while helping restore land degraded by industrial pollution, poor agriculture, erosion and climate change, says André Faaij.
The objectives set by the Climate Air Energy Plan for Paris seek to meet the European and WHO standards on air pollution. In the French capital city, "this implies the phasing out of diesel vehicles in 2024 and the phasing out of gasoline-powered vehicles in 2030," Dan Lert said.
Rather than prescribing solutions like electrification to decarbonise road transport, policymakers should focus on creating a framework for innovation that takes a technology-neutral approach, argues MEP Barbara Thaler.
One of the lawmakers steering the revision of the EU’s renewable energy directive in the European Parliament has called on the European Union to "at least triple" or even quadruple the production of clean energy from solar thermal by the end of the decade.
Renewable biofuels have been touted as a means to partially replace embargoed Russian oil, but have proven controversial. To discuss the role of biofuels in plugging Europe’s oil supply gap, EURACTIV spoke with MEP Henna Virkkunen.
REN21, as the only global renewable energy community of actors from science, governments, NGOs and industry, is at the heart of enabling the transport transition. Its Executive Director, Rana Adib, shares her perspective on mobility, renewable energy, and how both are inter-related to effect deep, positive change.
Spanish Transport Minister Raquel Sánchez Jiménez spoke to EURACTIV about the state of mobility in Spain, from grappling with the fallout caused by soaring fuel prices to Spanish efforts to decarbonise the way citizens move.
On the eve of its 125th anniversary, Renault is determined to disrupt the global mobility industry through its newest brand Mobilize. “We don’t want to sell cars, we want to sell services” boldly says Mobilize CEO, Clotilde Delbos.
The Kazakh authorities at first tried to stigmatise as terrorists and outcasts those who had taken to the streets in January, but they are very aware of the scale of public discontent and are trying to respond to them, political analyst Anastassiya Reshetnyak said in an interview.
