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% […]
February 16, 2016 Carbon Capture and Storage, European Union, Future energy system, Gas EU presents gas strategy – while aiming to avoid fossil lock-in BRUSSELS: The European Commission today presented a package consisting of four legislative proposals which aim to enhance European energy […]
February 11, 2016 Bioenergy, Climate change, Energy Efficiency, International climate conferences World’s first ever cap on aviation emissions strengthens rationale for sustainably sourced biofuels Following years of negotiations, the United Nations aviation body, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), reached an […]
February 5, 2016 Arctic, Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Future energy system, Gas Norway goes to Brussels to dump its dirty fossil assets on Europe BRUSSELS: At the third annual EU-Norway Energy Conference in Brussels today, the EU’s Climate and Energy Commissioner Arias Cañete was […]
February 3, 2016 Electric mobility, Future energy system Fight against car maker lobby harder than anticipated Today, 3 February 2016, during its plenary vote in Strasbourg, environmentally conscious parties in the European Parliament failed to secure […]
February 2, 2016 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Where is the EU ETS reform at present? The first trading periods of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) exposed the scheme’s numerous flaws mainly tied to its failure to […]
January 26, 2016 Electric mobility, European Union, Future energy system Rectifying the EU’s emission testing regime: Where are we now? Following revelations about the commonplace nature of emission test manipulations across the entire car maker industry, the European […]
January 25, 2016 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Opening in Oslo: A world first for CCS Today a test plant for CO2-capture opened at the waste incineration plant at Klemetsrud, Oslo. This is the first time anywhere in the world […]
January 13, 2016 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas, International climate conferences, Oil Bellona hosts its 2nd ‘Energy and Climate Dialogue’ forum in Kiev 24 November 2015, Kiev – The Bellona Foundation held its 2nd “Energy and Climate Dialogue” forum, this time focusing on oil and gas […]
