The Commission is pushing electric cars & charging infrastructure investment, but commissioners are unhappy with charging pitt-stop on route btwn Brussels & Strasbourg plenary because it makes the trip around 20 min longer! www.politico.eu/article/euro...

🛡️ ENERGY SHIELD: ON! EV drivers are paying €71 less per month on average than petrol drivers to fuel their cars in the Middle East crisis. T&E’s analysis finds that the energy crisis has inflated petrol prices FIVE TIMES more than EV charging. 🧵

The EV transition is not only happening in Scandinavia. Now also large markets like UK, Germany and France are above 25% EV share of new cars. Can’t wait to see the May numbers. Graphics borrowed from @ilyasdogru.bsky.social.

This sounds like an interesting and important article about agency for climate change mitigation, which I look forward to reading.

There are so few statues of women, now a committee has identified 100 women, who should have a statue. In my home town Roskilde there are 2 statues of women - Queen Margrethe 1 on a horse and the author Lise Nørgarrd, but this is unusual, normally statues are of men! www.dr.dk/nyheder/kult...

"Used cars are a treasure trove of metals essential in energy technology, but the EU is letting them vanish without a trace." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Another day in the office, with another cake surprise😋, this time from another colleague. Is this beginning to be a new habit 🤔

The best start to work is when I get into the office early and discover a colleague got there even earlier and have set a chocolate croissant on my meeting table 🥐😄

The European Commission will propose the Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation (#SDBTR) this spring We know WHY rail ticketing in the EU needs to be fixed Here I explain the building blocks HOW to do it jonworth.eu/how-to-fix-r...

🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫 Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc. ⁉️Questions welcome Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏

Savner du viden, dybde og perspektiv i den anspændte politiske situation omkring Grønland? - Så har vi samlet vores eksperter på en emneinddelt liste her: www.sdu.dk/ekspert 📞 Giv dem et kald, hvis du arbejder på en historie eller på en anden måde i dit arbejde har brug for ekspertviden på området.

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam

Anyway they can't have it because an alliance of companies from Denmark, NL, Germany, UK and Norway are going to cover it in wind farms to generate cheap clean renewable energy...

There is reason to believe that Denmark soon will decide to implement universal road pricing. Read here why and how: concito.dk/en/concito-b... #dktrp #dkgreen #dkpol

The ultimate sacrifice Europe made for America

"We are pushing the climate far beyond the conditions that nurtured civilisation". Prof @kevinclimate.bsky.social on dire consequences in store without emergency action to stop burning fossil fuels. Watch the full talk here: www.nebriefing.org/briefings/cl... #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Thank you for the music! Check out our new playlist and discover which hits marked each European country this year! 🔊🇪🇺 Listen to our “Best of Europe in 2025” playlist now: open.spotify.com/playlist/6jY...

Very useful thread to understand the European Council decision

Lithuanian lawmakers voted to allow a cat to have a say (or maybe a meow) on whether the head of the national broadcaster can be dismissed.

Disappointed, as the Danish government today decided on a 82% climate target for 2035 that - doesn’t really require new policies* - didn’t include targets for international aviation’s climate impact (which is about to surpass that of all Danish cars!) *: More (in Danish) concito.dk/files/media/...

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

BBC News - Rail link between London and Edinburgh extended to Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Commission drops the ban on fossil fuel vehicles. The transition to electrical cars is speeding up, but the German car industry is pulling the brakes on the transition. Where will that leave the industry in the future? But, the German car industry is a very successful lobbyist.

Of relevance for those working on the @ipcc.bsky.social Special Report on Cities. @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/interview-ho...

Electric cars 'no more dangerous for pedestrians than conventional ones', new study finds www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr...

There’s 25% reductions for Interrail and Eurail tickets bought by 17th December, for use during almost all of 2026. Combined with advice from @seatsixtyone.bsky.social, it’s a great way to travel sustainably next year: www.interrail.eu/en/interrail...

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids. Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km. We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

No surprise that the nuclear industry is undermining renewable energy in the US. They’ve been doing that in France for a long time.

"Weakening the 2035 target would not only slow vehicle decarbonisation; it would also disrupt investment planning for grids and charging networks." Says Kai Tegethoff

Some good news finally ;-) 🍫💝 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/key-che...

After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply: HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW? In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?

Interesting-looking new study finding lower electric vehicle adoption in areas with higher vote for the far-right AfD in Germany, independently from other factors doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason. MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs. 1/4

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The IEA has brought back the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) in the World Energy Outlook (WEO). I think this will be useful. Fossil CO2 emissions keep rising, when they should be falling. It is time to admit that. So I hope the CPS can help address this issue. www.iea.org/reports/worl... 1/

🚨EU-landene er enige om et klimamål i 2040, detaljerne udestår. Landene har forhandlet i nat og er her til morges blevet enige (nok...)

Several EU countries want to continue to produce cars with combustion engines. Whilst consumers in Denmark are choosing electical car over combustion engines. So not everyone is stock in the past!

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍 What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world? A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟 Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

Hello from the first ever #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Hamburg 🇩🇪 #DSB #EuroCity #Talgo service 🥳🎉. The trainset is brand new, rather stylish and there’s, almost, level boarding throughout. No #DiningCar though, but I spotted a ☕️ vending machine. And I’m in seat 61 😉. @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @talgo.com

📣 Upcoming Virtual Event: CBAM and the Foreign Pollution Fee Act: Transatlantic Dialogue on Carbon Border Measures 🗓️ November 5, 2025 10:00 – 11:00 AM ET / 16:00 – 17:00 CET More info: buff.ly/AFczuMe

Germany’s sheer determination to box its already-struggling car industry into a dying technology will never cease to amaze me.

The Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper has been saved. RDC will take over when SJ pulls out. May not run on some winter nights in future though: www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains "Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be... My analysis in English: jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

Russia failed to win back its seat on the United Nations aviation agency's governing council today after staunch opposition from the EU over the invasion of Ukraine.

Perfect autumnal 🍂 weather 🌞 for a BBQ for all new students in social sciences at Roskilde University. Although I spotted a few older students in the queue 😀

🚦 Join ICCT and partners TOMORROW at #ClimateWeekNYC for an interactive, discussion-driven event on how sustainable mobility and electrification strategies can improve air quality and cut greenhouse gas emissions. 📅 Sept 23 | 8:30 – 10:30 am 👉 Save your seat: cruxalliance.org/event/nycw20...

There's no trains between Aulum and Struer until Sunday because a busy beaver has built a dam under a bridge, which has affected the tracks 😳 🦫

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero