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Let's talk about c̶h̶e̶m̶t̶r̶a̶i̶l̶s̶ contrails.
❌ What they aren’t: Malign forces spraying chemicals.
✅ What they are: Clouds of water vapor, soot and particles that trap heat, worsening global warming.
🟢 The good news? Cost-effective solutions to address this exist!
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T&E will bring together senior policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society to discuss how to maintain progress on the European Green Deal while remaining competitive.
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NEW: Today’s EU Auto Plan must mark a line in the sand for concessions on car industry climate targets.
While it includes positive steps on corporate fleets, slow movement on battery manufacturing and the weakening of CO₂ targets will see Europe fall further behind China.
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NEW: The EU Commission will propose a weakening of the 2025 car CO2 target.
If implemented, it would delay the scale up of EV production in Europe and remove pressure on the industry to roll out cheaper EV models this year.
Read our reaction ➡️ transportenvironment.org/art…
🇪🇪Estonia saw the most improvement in 2024, with 84% of new city buses being battery-electric.
🇳🇱Looking at the past four years, however, the Netherlands comes out on top: less than 1% of new city buses have been diesel since 2021.
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NEW: Half of new EU city buses were zero-emission in 2024, making city buses one of the early success stories of the European Green Deal.
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3 reasons why the EU Automotive Plan should leave the car CO2 targets as is:
📈The EV market is up, in part thanks to targets. Now is not the time to stop
🚗Let's focus on fleet electrification to boost demand
🔋The real crisis is developing local batteries capacity
Read more➡️ transportenvironment.org/art…
Sales of EVs by European carmakers grew 51% last month compared to one year ago while the overall EV market grew by 34%.
Carmakers have started to boost BEV sales, some with more affordable models, ahead of the EU 2025 CO2 target and will continue to do so.
The EU needs to stay the course on 2025!
Tomorrow the Commission is poised to publish its first Omnibus proposal streamlining green rules to boost competitiveness.
First up? Weakening sustainability reporting and due diligence rules that hold companies accountable for their environmental impacts.
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NEW: A study commissioned by T&E finds that slightly reducing the newly proposed weight limits in the EU Weights & Dimensions directive could accelerate zero-emission truck uptake and lead to road infrastructure costs savings.
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Carmakers don’t seem to mean what they say. One minute they can comply with the EU’s car CO2 targets. The next, they are demanding the targets be scrapped.
They are playing a double game to weaken climate rules: complain then comply.
Explore the timeline ➡️ transportenvironment.org/art…
NEW: The EU State Aid plan to support the Clean Industrial Deal does not effectively support EU-made cleantech.
A 'Make, buy, protect Europe' strategy must be at the heart of this plan to make a local batteries industry a reality.
Read the report ➡️ transportenvironment.org/art…
The car industry is trying to lobby out climate targets for its biggest polluting vehicles.
10% of the most polluting vehicles would be excluded from the cars CO2 targets under ‘relief measures’ proposed by the industry.
Read our analysis ➡️ transportenvironment.org/art…
