Getting cities smarter and more sustainable… faster
On November 6, 2015 the EU presented its H2020-SCC-2016 smart and sustainable cities call. The call will be opened 10 November 2015, the closing date is 8…
MEPs approve new national caps on pollutants
EU Commission plans for more ambitious national caps on emissions of six key pollutants, including NOx, particulates and sulphur dioxide, were endorsed by Parliament on Wednesday.…
Mark Carney urges firms to be transparent regarding their emission targets
On the way to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) taking place this December in Paris, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, said…
EU SET Plan: H2 focus is renewable based and at less FC cost
The EU Commission published its Communication on September 15, 2015 "Towards an Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: Accelerating the European Energy System Transformation" (COM2015/6317) pointing…
Deep Carbonization scenario’s for Germany include H2
Two of the three scenario's in the latest country report on Germany of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), co-founded in 2013 by the United Nations’…
Investors nudge multinationals to green their Brussels’ lobby groups
A group of 25 international institutional investors with assets worth more than €61 billion in assets under management, including AP4, the Swedish National Pension Fund (€31…
Obama’s birthday gift: Clean Power Plan
On the eve of his 54th birthday, President Obama unveiled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan to cut the carbon pollution driving climate…
US > EU Business Act on Climate Pledge?
On July 27 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry and senior White House officials hosted 13 of the largest companies from across the American economy who…
EU Commission launches energetic Summer package
On the eve of a new heat wave and national holiday weekend in Belgium the EU Commission presented its long anticipated Energy package including more details…
Release of ”Key action points for the successful implementation of the energy transition”
On 1 July the German government reached a political agreement, summarised in a Key Points Paper, on measures to achieve the objectives of the Energiewende (German…