The EU will focus the plane on renewing the fossil fuel tax
The EU is getting closer and closer to agreeing on an aircraft tax, as part of a comprehensive renewal of fossil fuel taxes, to help meet high-emission targets.
EU finance ministers held a wide-ranging meeting in Lisbon on Saturday for proposals to come across Europe for the tax on kerosene fuel used in aircraft, officials told the Financial Times.
Brussels has struggled in previous years to extend fuel tax rules to areas such as air and sea, but the cause has resurfaced with the bloc pledging to reduce EU carbon emissions by 55% over the next decade and a net zero by 2050.
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Potentials and risks for climate targets
Hydrogen-based fuels should primarily be used in sectors such as aviation or industrial processes that cannot be electrified, finds a team of researchers. Producing these fuels is too inefficient, costly and their availability too uncertain, to broadly replace fossil fuels for instance in cars or heating houses. For most sectors, directly using electricity for instance in battery electric cars or heat pumps makes more economic sense. Universally relying on hydrogen-based fuels instead and keeping combustion technologies threatens to lock in a further fossil fuel dependency and greenhouse gas emissions.
“Hydrogen-based fuels can be a great clean energy carrier – yet great are also their costs and associated risks,” says lead author Falko Ueckerdt from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). “Fuels based on hydrogen as a universal climate solution might be a bit of false promise. While they’re wonderfully
Greece says charterers should pay EU emissions trading costs Greece has officially declared it wants the European Union to make charterers liable for carbon prices when the 27-country block includes shipping in its Emissions Trading System (ETS) from the start of 2022.
The country s Shipping and Island Policy Minister, Ioannis Plakiotakis in a letter to the European Commission, says the polluter pays principle should apply.
Expressing the concerns of the Greek shipping industry regarding the intentions of the European Commission, in the context of the revision of the EU ETS, to include shipping in it, Plakiotakis backs the creation of a special European Fund under the EU ETS.
6 May 2021 17:13 GMT Updated 7 May 2021 1:37 GMT
Hydrogen should be reserved for focused use in decarbonising air travel and the world’s heavy-emitting industries or it could lock the world in to longer-term fossil fuel reliance and drive up greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a new German study.
Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) concluded that hydrogen should only be used in sectors that “cannot be electrified” as production of the carrier is still “too inefficient, costly and [its] availability too uncertain, to broadly replace fossil fuels” in running cars or heating homes.
“For most sectors, directly using electricity for instance in battery electric cars or heat pumps makes more economic sense. Universally relying on hydrogen-based fuels instead and keeping combustion technologies threatens to lock in a further fossil fuel dependency and GHGs,” said PIK’s Falko Euckerdt, who lead the study.
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Hydrogen-based fuels should primarily be used in sectors such as aviation or industrial processes that cannot be electrified, finds a team of researchers. Producing these fuels is too inefficient, costly and their availability too uncertain, to broadly replace fossil fuels for instance in cars or heating houses. For most sectors, directly using electricity for instance in battery electric cars or heat pumps makes more economic sense. Universally relying on hydrogen-based fuels instead and keeping combustion technologies threatens to lock in a further fossil fuel dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen-based fuels can be a great clean energy carrier - yet great are also their costs and associated risks, says lead author Falko Ueckerdt from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Fuels based on hydrogen as a universal climate solution might be a bit of false promise. While they re wonderfully versatile, it should not be expected that they broadl