EU parliament backs emissions reprieve for carmakers

Europe’s electric car push runs into political and economic roadblocks

European Union leaders face growing pressure to revise their 2035 ban on gas and diesel car sales as automakers struggle to compete with China, and conservative lawmakers warn of job losses and industry decline.Chico Harlan reports for The Washington Post.In short:European automakers are struggling to meet the EU’s 2035 ban on internal combustion engines, citing high costs, job cuts, and competition from cheaper Chinese electric vehicles.Politic…

The stringency and potential impact of climate laws and policies in the European Union and the 21OECD countries

In this paper, I offer a way to measure the stringency of climate change legislation for macro-comparative studies using publicly available data. The paper is innovative in that it examines the complex interrelationship between national, subnational, and supranational legislation using data from the FaoLex database on environmental laws and policies. It is also novel in that it conducts a contextualized comparison that takes into account differe…

The limit values for CO2 emissions will be valid for more than three years in the future – a decision that will cause indignation for climate protectionists, and could harm the EU as well.

Because transportation decarbonization policies "function" and place Quebec and Canada at the forefront of the electrification of their fleet, Équiterre asks governments to ignore the repeated demand of the automotive industry to lower their thresholds of electrification in the short and medium term.

CAFE Standards: From Energy-Security Measure to Backdoor EV Mandate

Fuel economy standards, among many other regulatory requirements, were established through congressional authority granted by the Energy Policy Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975. The EPCA’s fundamental purpose was to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil imports in response to the Arab oil embargo that threatened America’s energy security. Congress designed the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to encourage American and foreign …

Two more years until 2027 is how much car manufacturers in the European Union have to catch up and cut CO2 emissions from their fleets of cars and vans by 15% (compared to 2021). This has been agreed by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. A flexibility that has not been liked by all European parliamentary groups. This is the case of Los Verdes, who consider the proposal “unjustified and harmful to both industry and consumers”. Des…