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Several Dutch scientists have reacted to the calculations Belgian professor Damien Ernst (Liège University) has made about the turning point when an electric car gets greener than a petrol-driven. They claim that Ernst’s 697.612 km is ten to twenty times […]
Six Dutch multinationals – FrieslandCampina, Unilever, Heineken, DSM, Philips and Shell) – have decided to make their shipments more sustainable. In the future, their container ships will run on renewable fuel. A first Maersk test ship will sail from Rotterdam […]
Not expanding the Low-Emission Zone (LEZ) in Antwerp will cost 3.116 years of life. That is the stunning result of calculation based on a feasibility study by the leader of green political party, Groen, Wouter Van Besien. “So, the only […]
Before the elections, the MR party is presenting its new Climate Plan. Composed of forty measures, the party wants it to “encourage and not prohibit and exonerate and not tax”. President Charles Michel and its party push for Belgium to […]
According to the last Jato Dynamics report, the average European CO2 emissions have increased in 2018 to reach the highest average of the last four years. New WLTP measures and diesel bashing are to blame, but the increasing market’s interest […]
The liberal Open VLD and the ecological Groen have different positions in the climate debate in Belgium. The debate about the company car is exemplary. The blue-green axis, which Groen once mentioned, is gone. Stimulate “We want to stimulate people, […]
Fewer and fewer Belgian youngsters get a driving license today. This is shown by figures from the Federal Public Service (FPS) Mobility. There are several reasons why young people in particular are not keen on getting a driving license and […]
To reduce CO2 emissions from transport, Europe issued a directive that 10% of diesel and petrol in the fuel tank must be of vegetable origin, such as palm oil. Large areas of tropical forest have already been cut down, which […]
Flemish green party Groen has launched on Thursday its climate action plan for coming elections in Belgium. It builds upon six ‘routes’ with mobility as one of the spearheads. In this Groen is not averse to use heavy artillery against […]
Wallonia’s ‘Air-Climat’ Plan, backed by Ministers Jean-Luc Crucke (MR) and Carlo Di Antonio (PS), aims at promoting alternative energy sources. By 2030, 6.900 public electric charging points, 220 CNG filling stations, 25 GNL stations and 20 hydrogen-equipped stations will be […]
The climate measures that Belgium has taken until now will not decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases. On the contrary. With the limited measures the country has taken, they even will go up. These striking figures were given by the […]
Flemish environmental organization, Bond Beter Leefmilieu (BBL), has drafted a proposal it calls ‘Eleven solutions for a better climate and healthier environment‘. The plan is supported by over 100 Flemish environmental organizations. But are the proposed solutions achievable and desirable? […]
Île-de-France Air Quality Control Agency (Airparif) confirms that diesel cars, vans and trucks aren’t the only source of small particulates. For the whole Region, 45% of them are emanating from central heating systems, 24% from the manufacturing industry while diesel […]
A CO2 tax would be the beginning of the end, claim opponents of such a tax. Sweden has had such a tax for almost 30 years. Over there the tax is as self-evident as energy tax, VAT, alcohol tax and […]
Belgium pays 451 million euro per year to trucking companies that fill up with diesel at Belgian petrol stations. Of this, 165 million euro is paid to foreign companies, which partly cancels out the income from the kilometre charge for […]
After how much time does an electric vehicle (EV) gets ‘greener’ than a petrol car (ICE or Internal Combustion Engine)? The TV magazine, Auto Mobile, of the French)speaking Belgian national television channel RTBF has calculated that it takes… 697.612 kilometres. […]
Tired of all the practical and time-consuming problems involved in renting a car at an airport? UFODRIVE, a Luxembourg founded startup claiming to be the first all-digital, all-electric car rental company says it has found the solution. One that they […]
The Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament wants to cancel the short flights between Amsterdam and Brussels. Today, there still are several flights a day between the two capitals. The train, however, is a faster and more sustainable alternative. On […]
Next Tuesday, at the Council of Environment Ministers, Belgium will propose to its European partners to introduce a tax on commercial aviation. It could be a tax on kerosene or on airline tickets. Belgium is following the example of France […]
From 2021, municipalities in the Netherlands will be able to bully petrol cars and diesels out of the city with exorbitant rates for paid parking and parking permits. The Dutch cabinet, the ‘greenest cabinet ever’, has decided that. In other […]
Consultant in low carbon and energy transition, Philippe Delaisse, suggests the introduction of a carbon credit card to reduce pollution in Belgium. It would work in a similar manner as the Kyoto agreement’s carbon credit. Less aggressive than taxes or […]
The City Council of the Flemish-Brabant city of Vilvoorde gives the green light for joining Energy Cities, a European network of which more than 1.000 climate city and towns are already member. Peter Van Kemseke (CD&V), alderman of sustainability, hopes […]
The mayor of the city and the governor of New York toy with the idea to make car drivers pay to enter Manhattan. A city congestion tax like London to finance the ‘subway’. The latter has to be approved by […]
New calculations show that a maximum speed limit of 130 kph on the German highways – the so-called Autobahn – can save at least 140 lives per year. These figures have been published by the German news magazine Der Spiegel. […]
Marc Doutreluingne, the liberal mayor of West-Flemish Zwevegem, wants to ban the popular ‘6 hours from Courtrai’ rally of the territory of its municipality. The city council has been providing logistical support for the event for years, but the Open […]
Swiss company, Climeworks, in Zürich, is experimenting with a technique called ‘direct air capture’ to sell CO2 as a commodity. Like for the bubbles in your Coca Cola. Or as a fertilizer for greenhouses. More than hundred years ago two […]
If one in three Belgians worked at home regularly, there would be five deaths and 39 seriously injured people less on the road every year. And if the number of teleworkers doubles, then every year cars will travel 25 million […]
By 2030, twice as many goods will have to be transported by rail. It is a lot more ecological and it would also make our traffic more fluent. However, different handicaps might slow down the breakthrough of the freight train. […]
The Dutch national Planning Bureau (PlanBureau voor de Leefomgeving, PBL) was considered an impartial, all-knowing referee. Severe miscalculations of the boom of electric cars in the Netherlands among others, costing double the estimates, put it now under fire. On the […]
Driving economically can yield a profit for the environment. Still, this aspect is completely ignored in the climate debate. “A missed opportunity”, says Martin Kroon, former project leader of The New Driving, (Het Nieuwe Rijden). Driving more economically Between 1990 […]
Belgium supports fossil fuels with some 2,7 billion euro a year in tax breaks. This is the conclusion of a study by the Climact consultancy commissioned by WWF for the period 2014-2016. For example, Belgium encourages the use of individual […]
Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. A consortium of companies will use discarded gas platforms in the North Sea to convert wind energy into hydrogen. This way green electricity can be stored without batteries and transported cheaply. The future […]
On Tuesday, Dutch State Secretary for Finance, Menno Snel (Democrats 66), has presented a European tax on CO2 emissions of airplanes. He emphasized the urgency for measures related to climate change. Most polluting Minister Snel wants a tax on the […]
In January, the Flemish government introduced an app to control the quality of the air in Flanders with your smartphone. Now it seems the app is anything but reliable. Even along the highway the app says everything is peachy keen. […]
Benelux and France will fall far behind the targets the European Union has defined for the community in 2020. In 2007, the European Union promised to reduce CO2 emissions with 20% by 2020, to use 20% of renewable energy by […]
