25.10.2018 – To help addressing Germany’s growing CO2 emissions from the transport sector, the country’s parliament amended the federal highway toll law to exempt lorries powered by natural gas from tolls
25.10.2018 – The European Parliament voted in favor of new rules on road use charges in the EU to guarantee equal treatment of road users and to help Member States reach
25.10.2018 – Top trade officials from 12 countries and the EU vowed to reform the WTO rules in the face of US actions that threaten to paralyze the body. The member
24.10.2018 – Vietnam’s lawmakers have decided to raise the environmental tax on a number of commodities from January 2019, including hard coal, gasoline, kerosene, plastic bags, lubricants, mazut, HCFCs, ozone-depleting substances
24.10.2018 – Germany must find a way to reduce its agricultural emissions, which make up seven percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by mid-century.
24.10.2018 – According to its energy chief, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is making a decisive shift to clean energy. Coal plants are becoming unviable investments, as renewable energy costs fall
23.10.2018 – Global asset manager Schroders launched its Climate Progress Dashboard in 2017 predicting the EU is on path for a temperature rise of 4°C.Despite the bright spark of strong carbon
23.10.2018 – Demand for energy is poised to increase rapidly in Bangladesh. Since a pricing reform for natural gas is off the table and the government will not accept taxation of
23.10.2018 – Due to heavy Chinese government policy and funding support, Shenzhen is the world’s first city with an entire bus fleet that runs on electricity. Yet, extending Shenzhen’s experiment to
23.10.2018 – A new approach to underpin the existing climate agreement is, similar to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, a moratorium in rich countries on any further expansion of the fossil fuel
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