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No energy-efficient buildings without adequate bicycle parking and e-bike charging infrastructure

On 14 July, the European Commission published its immense “Fit for 55” package with several new legislative proposals destined to help achieve the political tar...The transport and building sectors are both crucial for the EU’s 2030 goal of cutting emissions by 55%. A new ECF position paper outlines how to include bicycle parking a...

20 Jul, 2021

The Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion was adopted on 18 May 2021 at the 5th High-level meeting on Transport, Health and Environment. As part of the...The new pan-European cycling master plan includes ECF recommendations on cycling infrastructure, funding and tourism and covers 54 countries across Europe and North Ameri...

18 May, 2021
EU member states are neglecting cycling in post-pandemic recovery plans

New analysis by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) of Member States’ National Recovery and Resilience Plans submitted to the EU show that only six are prop...Over half of European Union Member States are neglecting cycling in their post-pandemic recovery plans, missing out on billions of euros in economic and health benefits.

27 Apr, 2021

The German federal government will be investing 900 million Euro in cycling as part of its national climate protection programme. The largest part will be funde...

08 Feb, 2021

Member States have begun to take the decarbonization potential of cycling more seriously, but there is still a long way to go in recognising cycling as a fully-...

08 Oct, 2020

After more than 4 days of negotiations, 27 heads of government struck a deal and agreed on the EU budget totalling 1.82 trillion Euro. The deal includes th...

05 Aug, 2020

Allocating 10 % of the transport capital budget to cycling has been a long-standing demand of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). But so far, to our knowle...

29 Jul, 2020

When it comes to cycle development, the federal level in Austria is shifting up two gears. On World Bicycle Day, June 3, the new Austrian Federal Minister for C...

05 Jun, 2020
The European Green Deal – A huge opportunity for cycling

The EU will become the first to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the European Commission proposed last Wednesday in its landmark Communication on a Euro...

17 Dec, 2019

The new Finnish centre-left government set its ambitions high when it took office in June 2019: by 2035, the Nordic country should achieve zero-carbon emissions...

23 Sep, 2019
Cycling fully-fledged part of Dutch climate policy

To address climate disruption, the Dutch government presented its Climate Agreement on 28 June 28th, 2019. The whole of Western Europe was hit by a scorching he...

29 Jul, 2019

The European Commission has published in June 2019 the second part of its Guidance Note on the implementation of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings (EP...

23 Jul, 2019

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