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Road transport

View of a number of trucks on a road

17/4/2024 News

European Parliament adopts stricter CO₂ emissions targets for trucks and buses

The European Parliament has officially adopted new measures, already agreed with the European Council, to strengthen CO₂ emission reduction targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs).

Carbon trading / pricing

Head and shoulders photo of Chris Hilson standing in front of brick and pebble wall

8/1/2025 Comment / Chris Hilson

Fossil fuel exporting countries – how to account for exported emissions

How are fossil fuel-exporting countries incentivised to cut emissions associated with their fuel exports? They are not, but they ought to be, argues Chris Hilson, Professor of Law at the University of Reading and Director of the Reading Centre for Climate and Justice, UK.

Oil and gas

Head and shoulders photo of Fergus Green set against grey background

8/10/2025 Comment / Fergus Green

The UK’s tough new climate test for oil and gas producers

Developers of new oil and gas projects must now calculate how much carbon will be emitted during combustion of the oil and gas extracted. And this will make it difficult for the UK government to approve new projects, argues Fergus Green, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London.

Coal

Coal barges on the Mahakam river

31/7/2024 News

Indonesia misses coal mine methane emissions mitigation in decarbonisation plans

Indonesian coal mining companies are significantly overlooking coal mine methane (CMM) emissions and not including their mitigation in decarbonisation plans, according to a new report from think tank Ember. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that global coal demand is set to remain broadly flat through 2025.

Forecasting

Head and shoulders photo of John Lange, with blurred green plants and grass in background

5/11/2025 Comment / John Lang

Ten years on from the Paris Agreement – a decade that defied predictions

The world is in a much better place to beat climate change than it was – the energy transition has begun in earnest. But now this must be accelerated to deliver sustained decline in global emissions, argues the UK-based Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit’s John Lang.

Innovation

Gloved hand holding solar material with tweezers

14/8/2024 News

Sustainable energy R&D: solar, hydrogen and carbon capture innovations

Researchers continue to make new discoveries in the search for sustainable energy solutions. Oxford University, for example, has developed a flexible, high-efficiency solar technology that could see everyday objects generating power, while MIT engineers have unveiled a novel method for producing hydrogen fuel using aluminium and seawater.

Energy policy

Graphic of solar panel, wind turbine and pylon

20/9/2023 News

European Parliament backs plans to boost renewable energy and SAF uptake

The European Parliament voted last week to boost the deployment of renewable energy and encourage the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), in line with the bloc’s Green Deal, REPowerEU, and Fit for 55 policy plans. Meanwhile, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new ‘wind power package’ aimed at tackling challenges faced by the European wind supply chain.

Energy data

Energy Institute headquarters, London

28/6/2023 News

Demand and emissions rose again in 2022 as energy systems struggled with global crises

The old BP annual review of global energy statistics may have moved to a new home at the Energy Institute, but the central message from this year’s EI Statistical Review of World Energy is of a second year of energy and emissions growth during 2022, despite strong progress with new renewables.

Energy policy

Pylons at dusk with a darkening sky

22/3/2023 News

European Commission proposes EU electricity market reform

The European Commission (EC) has proposed to reform the European Union’s (EU) electricity market design in order to accelerate a surge in renewables and the phase-out of gas, make consumer bills less dependent on volatile fossil fuel prices, better protect consumers from future price spikes and potential market manipulation, and make the EU’s industry clean and more competitive.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

Airbus A350 during refuelling with SAF

31/7/2024 News

SAF’s flight path to aviation decarbonisation

The aviation sector accounts for about 2% of global energy-related CO₂ emissions and requires significant transformation in a bid to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) will play an important role if the industry is to achieve its net zero by 2050 target, although currently making up less than 1% of global aviation fuel supply. However, a number of new developments have been reported that aim to increase SAF production.

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