Passenger cars and light commercial vehicles are responsible for 15% of all Europe’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and are the single largest source of toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, which cuts short the lives of over 40,000 Europeans every year.[1] Following [...]
Dr. Roland Kupers is an advisor to the United Nations Environment Program on methane. He made for 2Celsius two short presentations. One to introduce the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) and one specific program that we have set up, an [...]
2Celsius launched the report Regulating Methane Emissions: From Weak Commitments to Strong Implementation, which presents the shortcomings of the European Methane Regulation, but also assesses the situation in Romania, the second largest EU gas producer. Study: Methane regulation. Moving [...]
As the European Commission pushes forward with new rules on so-called “sustainable” finance for bioenergy and forestry, a coalition of non-governmental organizations from across the EU, that 2Celsius is a part of – supported by partners in the UK and [...]
The project "Pragmatic approach of the environmental, economic, social and legal challenges of the energy transition" is implemented by Bankwatch Romania Association in partnership with the 2Celsius Association and involves addressing climate change through the energy transition. The aim of [...]
The European Commission has released today a half-hearted Methane Regulation, letting off the hook imports and walking back from EU climate goals, say leading environmental groups. Methane emissions are responsible for 25% of the global warming of the planet, and [...]
2Celsius joins other non profit European organisations that support the climate change case brought to the Human Rights Court by six young people from Portugal against big polluters. The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a coordinated effort by [...]
Carmakers, environmentalists and consumer groups are calling on the EU to set ambitious targets per country for the deployment of electric vehicle charging points. In a common letter today, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Transport & Environment (T&E) and [...]
On Monday, March 4th, 2019 a precedent-setting case was filed with the European General Court in Luxembourg challenging the treatment of forest biomass as a renewable fuel in the European Union’s 2018 revised Renewable Energy Directive (known as RED II). [...]
Last two decades have witnessed an increase in the sales of SUVs at the expense of other type of cars. Riding along, there is a steep increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as at the exhaust pipe we find the [...]