July 20, 2016 Bioenergy, Climate change, Energy Efficiency, Energy storage, Transport New EU Transport Strategy: promising for freight emissions, but lacking on bioenergy, shipping and aviation BRUSSELS – Today’s European Strategy for Low-Emission Mobility makes the EU ambition for road transport clear: future mobility in Europe […]
July 7, 2016 Climate change, European Union, Future energy system, International climate conferences, Transport What to expect from the Slovak EU Presidency? BRUSSELS – On 1 July 2016 Slovakia took over the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time […]
July 5, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, Energy Efficiency, Future energy system, Transport Decarbonising freight: will Sweden’s eHighway take us in the right direction? Sweden last month became one of the first countries to introduce a highway with overhead electrical wires to power trucks. The so-called […]
June 29, 2016 Climate change, European Union Amidst Brexit unrest, EU climate policy must be kept on track BRUSSELS In the aftermath of the UK’s decision last week to leave the European Union Member States’ minds and resources will inevitably […]
June 16, 2016 Electric mobility, European Union, Future energy system, Transport Europe faces ups and downs in its ongoing battle against air pollution Following revelations last September about Volkswagen’s fraudulent vehicle emission testing practices all eyes have been on the reform […]
June 16, 2016 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Climate change, Electric mobility, Energy storage, Future energy system, Solar, Transport Bellona launches a battery company at 30th anniversary celebration OSLO – To mark its 30th anniversary, Bellona has today launched a battery company called BEBA (Bellona Energy Storage, Battery & […]
June 16, 2016 Bioenergy, Climate change, Future energy system Bellona turns 30! “We have changed society’s perception of the environment. People’s attitude towards our work has changed more than Bellona itself” […]
June 7, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, Fossil fuels, Transport Norway reaffirms its leadership position with plans for ‘no fossil cars’ by 2025 In a precedent setting deal, Norway’s political parties have today, 7 June, agreed that all cars sold in the country will be fossil […]
May 30, 2016 Electric mobility, Energy storage, European Union, Future energy system, Transport Why Europe needs to accelerate efforts to build its battery industry When it comes to the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) one of the main remaining hurdles is their higher purchase costs in comparison to […]
May 19, 2016 Electric mobility, Future energy system, Transport Brussels aims to fully electrify its bus fleet (by 2030) The Brussels government recently announced a strategy for the full electrification of the bus fleet of its Intercommunal Transport Company, […]
May 17, 2016 Bio-CCS, Bioenergy Can the oceans provide sustainable bioenergy? This is the question Bellona is asking the European Commission to dedicate more attention to finding out. On the back of the EU’s need and […]
May 4, 2016 Bioenergy, Climate change, Electric mobility, Energy Efficiency, Future energy system, Transport Car makers and oil companies join forces to stop electro-mobility in Europe – are they signing their own death warrant? The EU Auto Fuel Coalition, comprised of a number of big car and oil companies, has been accused of attempting to undermine the EU’s […]
April 27, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, Future energy system, Transport Germany to offer electric vehicle incentives worth 1 billion euro An agreement was reached earlier today, 27 April 2016, between the German government and car making companies Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, […]
April 22, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, Energy storage, Future energy system, Transport Bellona represented at inaugural event of the European Platform for Electro-mobility Yesterday, 21 April 2016, Brussels hosted the inaugural event of the Platform for Electro-mobility, a growing multi-stakeholder effort to […]
April 21, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, Future energy system, Transport Japanese car maker Mitsubishi joins the list of emission test cheaters Mitsubishi Motors has yesterday, 20 April 2016, admitted to having manipulated emission tests on at least 625,000 of four of its mini-car […]
April 13, 2016 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Increasing momentum for CO2 storage The CO2GeoNet’s annual Open Forum will be taking place from 9 to 11 May 2016 in San Servolo Island, Venice, with this year’s theme on […]
March 9, 2016 Arctic, Bio-CCS, Climate change, International climate conferences New temperature records reached in the Arctic This week scientists voiced the alarming news of abnormally high temperatures in the Artic region. – I fear that the […]
March 7, 2016 Climate change, Electric mobility, European Union, Future energy system, Transport Ambiguous EU directive risks unintentionally retarding EV uptake 2016 is set to be a busy year for the European Union, with a number of legislative processes currently underway on the climate and energy […]
February 29, 2016 European Union, International climate conferences What does the Paris Agreement mean for the EU? The EU’s climate and energy targets are based on an objective to limit temperature rise to 2°C rather than the newly agreed pursuit of […]
February 24, 2016 Bioenergy, European Union, Renewable energy, Transport Bioenergy in Europe’s ‘year of delivery’ Bioenergy policy in the EU is currently guided by the 2020 targets, which sets a 20% renewable energy target and a sub-target of 10% […]
