The Spanish government has announced on Tuesday it wants to forbid the sales and registration of diesel and petrol cars as from 2040 in the context of a future law on the energy transition, meant to decarbonize the economy by […]
According to a report from the European Commission, Belgium is one of the five countries that will not manage to meet the 2020 and 2030 emission reduction targets from the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21). The 28 members signed an […]
Is the world’s population explosion threatening the efforts we’re about to do to save the climate for further warming up? “It doesn’t matter how many people live on earth, as long as we manage to create a society without burning […]
Newmobility.news is an official media partner of the 9th Sustainable Innovation Forum 2018 (#SIF18), a major business-focused event to be held in Katowice, Poland, along the United Nations Climate Conference (COP24). The two-day forum gathers 600+ business delegates around crucial […]
Climate expert, Jos Delbeke, warns that we’re running out of time climate wise and that transport is one of the big problems in these. From February 2010 until the beginning of this year civil servant Delbeke was Director General (DG) […]
Today, a proposal for tax on all CO2 emissions is presented in the Dutch Parliament’s Lower House. It is a kind of VAT on greenhouse gas. Climate decaying products, such as coal power will become more expensive, climate friendly products, […]
The European Ministers have agreed that cities have to become places where moving on foot, or using a bicycle or public transport is the most evident, comfortable, affordable and safe choice. It’s the first time the European leaders come with […]
The EU member countries have finally reached an agreement on the reduction of CO2 emissions for cars: in 2030 this reduction has to be 35%, a compromise between the Commission’s proposal (30%) and the aim of the European Parliament (40%). […]
When the ambitions of the countries that signed the Paris climate agreement will be carried out, they will not be sufficient to limit global warming to 1,5 degrees. Not even when additional measures are taken after 2030. This is the […]
According to a study by the Dutch Deltares institute, the sea level is rising much faster than expected. Scientists thought it would rise gradually with one metre by 2100 but now they fear it will be twice that much. The […]
The European Parliament Committee on Transport opts for tougher and stricter CO2 emission targets for new cars and vans, 20% and 45% instead of 15 and 30%. The Members of the European Parliament indicated this in committee on Monday evening. […]
According to researcher specialized in touristic transport at the Breda University, Paul Peeters, tourism counts for a major part of the world’s CO2 emissions and planes are responsible for more than half of it. Inventions and new technologies won’t be […]
Five of the world’s biggest oil companies will not have to pay billions in New York’s costs due to climate change. New York holds the fossil companies responsible for present and future damage to the city from climate change. A […]
After months of negotiations and round table talks with representatives from government, industry and academic world of all sectors, the Netherlands is one of the first EU countries to have a Climate Agreement to reduce CO2 by half by 2030. […]
A first draft of a global climate deal (Klimaatakkoord) for the Netherlands has been presented on the 10th of July and it will affect everyone in the Dutch society. 300 participants, divided into 5 negotiation tables and 34 subtables, have […]
In Marseille, France’s biggest port, a captain of cruise ship Azura of P&O Cruises has to appear before court because he has infringed on air pollution regulations. Theoretically he can be imprisoned for one year and made to pay a […]
Airline companies can claim that the kerosene they’re using is ‘green’, once their supplying refinery has a minimum of solar panels or other sources for renewable energy. In that case they don’t need to compensate that many CO2 emissions and […]
The four parties in office and the three left-wing opposition parties have reached an agreement on a law that regulates how much the emission of greenhouse gases (CO2) must be reduced in the coming decades. “This is the most ambitious […]
Emissions in Belgium are still going up and the Belgian climate policy is a disaster. The country is lagging behind in the new climate ranking of the European Union member states (Belgium 16th place of 28), and will probably not […]
On Thursday the EU decided that from 2023 onward, the share of palm oil in biofuels should go down. From 2030 palm oil should no longer be found in European car tanks at all. This decision does not go as […]
The 44 municipalities of the Belgian Limburg province have decided to join forces in the battle against climate change by using the smart app ‘FutureproofedCities’, made by climate ambassador Serge de Gheldere. It’s a European first. Ambitious plans Limburg, just […]
The non-profit organization climate case (vzw Klimaatzaak) has obtained the right to sue Belgian Ministers for the Environment. Belgium’s Cassation Court has rejected all oppositional arguments against a possible trial. At the end of 2014, the vzw Klimaatzaak, an association […]
Milieudefensie, a well-known Dutch environmental movement, sues oil company Shell because of the climate damage it is still causing. All Dutch citizens can join the legal procedure. Many onlookers see this primarily as a symbolic move to gain more notoriety […]
The French capital of Paris has adopted on Monday its climate plan for 2024. The plan, counting some 500 different measures to be issued, was voted by all political parties of the city government and will be presented to the […]
At the start of the climate conference in Bonn, the European Commission published its report on the implementation of the EU climate agreements. Belgium scores poorly: CO2 emissions rose last year again in Belgium. In Wallonia and Brussels in particular, […]
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland want money from oil concerns to pay for the results of climate change. According to Dennis Herrera, advocate for the city of San Francisco, “Oil companies should take their responsibility for the damages […]
Already in the eighties Dutch oil company Shell warned climate change is real and one of the biggest threats for this planet. It even made a documentary film to prove it. But soon after that in the nineties, it joint […]
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