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Rising militarisation and spending on defence is detracting from efforts to counter climate change, NGOs claimed at an event in Brussels this week. The European Network against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and Transnational Institute (TNI) organised the event following figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing the leap in military spending, to consider the impact of European military public procurement on climate change. Nick Buxton, knowledge hub coordinator at TNI cited 2022 estimates by scientists who found the total military carbon footprint to be approximatel...
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Electric cars will have to become cheaper in Europe, one of the key steps to avoid jeopardising the continent's 2050 climate goals, suggest the latest studies from the EU's external auditor. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) released an overview of its four recently published special reports, giving a stark warning to the EU about its current policies for decarbonising the transport sector (accounting for 25% of the overall CO2 emissions). To achieve net zero by 2050, the 27 member states have to significantly curtail carbon emissions from internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, find viable ...
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Could human waste power the future of air travel? Wizz Air hopes so. The Hungarian airline says it’s reached a deal with a British company to work on producing sustainable jet fuel made from human waste. The biofuel company, Firefly Green Fuels, has developed a process which will convert waste from sewers into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company says it hopes to begin supplying the lower carbon power source from around 2028 and has come to an agreement with Wizz Air’s UK-based wing to provide up to 525,000 tonnes of SAF over a 15 year period. How will human waste be transformed into s...
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This week, Shell will try to convince Dutch courts to repeal a historic climate ruling that ordered the fossil fuel giant to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. In 2021, a landmark climate case saw The Hague order Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019, aiming to make the company align its business plans with Paris Agreement goals. The ruling included both Shell’s own emissions and so-called Scope 3 emissions produced by consumers using its products - like those from people driving with Shell petrol in their cars. New study: Climate change has made heat waves...
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Transport alone is set to make up almost half of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, a new analysis from campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. Emissions from transport across the continent have increased by more than a quarter since 1990 despite overall emissions being in decline. Since its peak in 2007, transport has been decarbonising more than three times slower than the rest of the economy, T&E found. “The good news is transport emissions in Europe have peaked. The bad news is other sectors are decarbonising three times faster,” says William Todts, executive direct...
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Want to slash your travel footprint? Swapping your usual budget flight for an overland adventure is the way to go. Trains are on the up in Europe, with new routes linking countries across the continent. But with many cities hit by strikes and high prices, some travellers are turning to other forms of group transport. “Collective travel is always better for the environment than a plane or car,” Andreas Schorling, managing director of FlixBus UK, tells Euronews Travel. “It’s also cost-effective.” We spoke to Andreas about how FlixBus went from a small German startup to Europe’s fastest-growing c...
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Winter sports sponsors including Audi and Equinor will melt almost 2,000 square kilometres worth of snow a year with their carbon emissions, according to a new report. For the first time, campaigners have formulated a way to measure the climate impact of major sponsorship deals with polluting industries. The findings from the New Weather Institute think tank underline an already glaring irony: winter sports are imperilled by many of their largest backers. “Winter athletes want to solely focus on their performance but the spectre of climate change looms large over every single snow sport,” says...
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For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred's Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control. Sometimes it didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the radiators ran so hot that residents had to keep their windows open in the middle of winter for relief. That all changed a few months ago when she got a window-mounted heat pump as part of a pilot project by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) aimed at cutting energy costs and lowering emissions. Suddenly, all Fred has to do is touch a dial to bump her temperature up or down, and she finds ...
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In this third and final episode about the European hydrogen rush, Euronews Tech Talks ventured into an Italian high school pioneering in the field of green hydrogen for heating. There, we learned more about the hydrogen boiler and collected questions for our Q&A episode with Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director of Clean Planet in DG Research and Innovation at the European Commission. What do hydrogen-powered trucks and cheese have in common? | Euronews Tech Talks PodcastScientists are shocked by the discovery of white hydrogen in France: could it be Europe's fuel?Is green hydrogen the future of h...
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Spain is banning some short-haul domestic flights as part of its plan to reduce carbon emissions. Flights with a rail alternative that takes less than two and a half hours will no longer be allowed, “except in cases of connection with hub airports that link with international routes”. The restriction is part of an agreement made in Congress by Spain’s coalition government. The country has been considering a ban since 2021 as part of its 2050 climate action plan. It comes after the French government officially banned domestic flights for journeys that can be made in less than two and a half hou...
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