Climate change is high on the agenda these days, but why is all the focus on emissions from power generation, while transport gets a free ride?

London just launched a bold, new effort to accelerate the transition to cleaner transport and reduce pollution from vehicles. Measuring and mapping air pollution data at the local level will help us understand whether it and other policies are working.

In a new resolution on the EU's net-zero strategy, the European Parliament once again acknowledged the political urgency for legislation on what has, to date, been Europe’s climate blind spot: methane emissions.   

Today, Environmental Defense Fund Europe released a report showing how an enabling policy for investment in emission reductions could unlock UK-driven innovation in the shipping sector. Report by Environmental Defense Fund Europe shows how the UK can use a Norwegian pollution reduction fund as a model to decarbonise its shipping sector.

The new air pollution mapping project Breathe London was launched by the London Mayor Sadiq Khan at a primary school in central London on Tuesday. The project involves a network of more than 100 advanced sensors deployed across the city to generate hyper-local data on the air that Londoners breathe each day.

The International Maritime Organization agreed a target to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 in April 2018. In May 2019 countries are going to begin to discuss the substantive measures that will be needed to decarbonise the sector and some developments this week have really shown that momentum is building towards that discussion.

The United Kingdom has a golden opportunity to reduce its emissions by focusing on road transport, but policies are being critiqued as 'vague and unambitious'

The United Kingdom has a golden opportunity to reduce its emissions by focusing on road transport, but policies are being critiqued as 'vague and unambitious'

The international shipping sector has recently agreed a decarbonsiation target and now sensible policies need to be put in place to achieve that target. However, there are lessons to be learned, and experiences to be shared, from other sectors that have already decarbonised, as seen by the UK's successful climate policies.