“Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through a socially-fair transition in a cost-efficient manner” – This is the key sentence in the European L...
Decarbonising the European economy is among the biggest challenges of our time, and all main-stream political parties in the EU agree with the overall...
On Tuesday 9th October, the members of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Committee voted to support a proposal to introduce a minimum of ei...
For one day a year, the Brussels capital region is banning all individual motorized transport – or to formulate it in a more appropriate way: For one day...
How can political support be translated into policy? This was the key question that was addressed in this governance workshop that focused on national cycling s...
This session primarily focussed on the integration of cycling with public transport in South America. Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) systems could cover almost the e...
Most bicycle and car trips start and end in buildings: in apartment blocks, in offices or in commercial buildings. Yet off-street parking is the often overlooke...
Sweden, 1997. The Swedish Parliament approves the ‘Vision Zero’ and makes it official government policy. Essentially, Vision Zero aims at achieving a highw...
The European Commission started today infringement procedures against France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the United Kingdom for violating EU air quali...
Today the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive took the last legislative hurdle by being adopted in Council [1]. Among other, it promotes electro-m...
The forthcoming Austrian EU Presidency received a letter from ECF’s Secretary General, Dr Bernhard Ensink, calling upon Austria to push forward a whole ser...
The Partnership for Urban Mobility held last week a high-level political discussion on the draft Urban Mobility Action Plan in Karlsruhe, Germany [1]. This draf...