Dear Vice President Timmermans, Commissioner Valean, Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Breton We, the signatories, write to express our support for the goals of the European Green Deal for shipping and aviation, notably the objectives to deploy sustainable alternative fuels/energy via a dedicated Fuel EU Maritime and ReFuelEU Aviation initiatives. Maritime and aviation transport are important parts …
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Carbon Market Watch has been following industry lobbying whereby the health crisis has been used as a pretext to weaken climate legislation. Building on the report “Never Wasting a Crisis: Industry Climate Lobbying During the COVID-19 Pandemic Exposed“, more cases have been collected below. The table above provides …
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While the EU carbon market is helping to clean up Europe’s power sector, industrial CO2 pollution remained stubbornly high, and that from aviation kept growing in 2019. This is partly due to overly generous handouts of pollution permits. These subsidies must be phased out to incentivise cleaner production and more sustainable transport as the scheme …
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Webinar recording available on YouTube or watch below Date & time: Tuesday 1 December – 10.30-12.15 CET Background: The world is facing both a health and a climate crisis. The aviation sector is particularly affected by the pandemic due to travel restrictions and drop in demand. The sector, a major source of greenhouse gas pollution, …
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Airlines have been hit hard by the pandemic induced economic slowdown and travel restrictions, but are also using the situation as an excuse to lobby even harder against climate regulations. As the EU works on its aviation climate package, it must ensure that – like other transport modes – the sector pays for its pollution …
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Europe’s renewed climate commitment under scrutiny Dear friends, The European Commission has proposed to strengthen Europe’s 2030 climate target to at least 55%. While a very positive development, the new target nevertheless falls short of what science says is needed for the EU to do its share to keep global warming at safe levels. Critically, …
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Carbon Market Watch (CMW) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to this European Commission Inception Impact Assessment (IIA), and urges the Commission, Parliament, and Council to adopt measures which strengthen the EU’s climate action in the aviation sector, as it currently falls short of the required level of ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s objective …
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Scroll down for French and Spanish COVID recovery needs environmental strings attached Dear members, colleagues and friends, Recent months have been testing times for so many, as the global pandemic continues to pull on the very fabric of our societies. While many countries around the world continue to battle the health crisis, others are already looking at how their economies can start to recover from the …
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Scroll down for French and Spanish Interview with (Andrew Murphy – Manager, Aviation at NGO Transport & Environment) For decades the aviation industry has enjoyed favourable conditions to expand its operations throughout Europe with little consideration of their climate impact. At the start of 2020, few could have predicted that the sector’s carbon emissions would …
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