The Commission adopted its 2018 Fuel Quality Report based on the data submitted by EU countries.
Achieving the 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport fuels remains problematic for most European Union Member States according to the latest reported data up to 2018 released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today.
A team of experts has assessed the transport sector and its projected development up to 2030 and 2050 for a number of countries. The objective of the assessment was to quantify the role that renewable transport fuels play in decarbonising the road transport sector, and to provide insights to policy makers on how individual countries differ from one another, which options for decarbonisation they have, and best practice examples for successful policies. This webinar will present the main conclusions and recommendations of this work.
In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium aims to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping.
Can we soon use asphalt on a large scale on a vegetable basis? The construction of test lanes with “bioasphalt” in the Netherlands should provide the necessary knowledge to start applying this technology on a large scale. The fossil constituent of asphalt, bitumen, is replaced by lignin, an important constituent of plants and trees. As a result, road construction is becoming greener, biogenic carbon can be stored in roads for a long time and we are becoming a little less dependent on petroleum again.
Sustainable fuels could play an important role in reducing transport emissions even as electric vehicles become cheaper says a new study from VTT and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Bitumen is a by-product of oil production and is used to bind the surfaces of paved roads. Some researchers, concerned about its environmental impacts and future supply if petroleum refining slows down, have started to develop bio-based alternatives
