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February 28, 2011 in Sustainable Mobility
Road transport accounts for about 17% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By 2050 the number of cars on the road is expected to treble and trucking activities double. Meeting growing demand for cleaner, lower-CO2 transport fuels will need a range of approaches, including vehicles powered by biofuels, electricity, compressed natural gas and hydrogen fuel cells.
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January 14, 2011 in Blog
January 1, 2011 in Green Cities
Many cities around the world are facing huge challenges when it comes to sustainability. With a rising population and higher energy demands not only problems about waste reduction and water supplies have to be solved, but also transport and energy efficiency in buildings have to be changed in order to make “Megacities” greener and more sustainable.
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April 1, 2010 in Electric Vehicles
The internal combustion engine dominated the twentieth century. It changed landscapes, industries, communities; it fundamentally altered the way we lived. However, its drawbacks went hand-in-hand with its benefits and the high environmental cost of motoring remains a matter of intense debate in countries across the world.
Here’s the rub; cars are machines that rely on ever-dwindling resources and create emissions, yet their use is entrenched in our societies; not driving is simply not a viable option. It’s this problem that has lead to the growth of interest in electric cars as potential solution and this month Comment Visions talks to a man who believes it is a very real solution.
Jacques de Selliers is an engineer and the founder of the European Association for Battery Electric Vehicles. While realistic over the limited impact electric vehicles have made in mainstream motoring he argues convincingly that their time will come; largely because it has to.
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March 23, 2010 in Live Debates
Last year, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso announced that a key element of the European Commission’s policy for 2010-14 would be to decarbonise transport by 2050.
As the transport sector is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, the second biggest energy consumer and the only sector where emissions are still growing, achieving sustainable mobility will be an essential element of any effort to reach the EU’s climate goals.
“Europe 2020″, the EU’s blueprint for economic reform, will include a number of initiatives (both legislative and financial) to support investment in infrastructure and low-carbon technologies. The Commission is to present a package of measures on transport and climate.
Which path will Europe’s decision-makers choose? So far, the European Commission has refrained from giving preference to one particular technology. Concerning mobility, it prefers to concentrate more on enabling elements – research and infrastructures – than end-user technologies.
Following the event, we caught up with some of the attendees who had earlier posed questions from the floor.
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