Cabinet Office
COP President-Designate welcomes ministers and leaders to the 2nd ZEV Transition Council
Alok Sharma welcomed participants who had attended the first meeting in November 2020, as well as new participants, including Germany and the USA.
Great to see you all again. We’ve got two big agenda items – the pace of transition that is needed to reach our Paris goals, and also the latest evidence on the relative environmental performance of technology options that we have to get to net zero. Then a short discussion on the global MoU on heavy-duty vehicles.
I am also joined by my friend Grant Shapps, UK Secretary of State for Transport.
Ahead of the Arctic Council Ministerial in May, hosted by Iceland, this webinar aims to highlight the climate crisis in the Arctic, the impacts of these changes and what Arctic governments and the shipping sector can contribute to tackle the Arctic climate crisis.
The Arctic is undergoing an acceleration in dramatic and unprecedented changes. Warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, the Arctic has seen temperatures soar to 38oC in Arctic Russia, and lowest ever July Arctic sea ice extten on recorded. Last September saw Arctic summer sea ice reach its second lowest extent since records began over 40 years ago – and subsequently, winter sea ice took longer to reform.
Electric vehicle sales global
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s low carbon mobility blueprint, which has indeed sparked interest in the country’s vehicle electrification ambitions, might not be forward-looking enough to drive its Asean electric vehicle (EV) target.
An analyst said Malaysia is still trailing its regional counterparts when it comes to pursuing the EV agenda.
“Neighbouring countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore are making huge strides in defining their EV plans and are successfully attracting large-scale foreign direct investments.
“Malaysia, on the other hand, is still largely focused on incentives that promote internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). We need to shift that focus if we want to attract more investors within the EV space, or we will risk losing out to our regional peers, ” he told StarBiz.
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Europe must not allow the push to tackle energy poverty to be derailed by the mirage of heating homes with hydrogen. Instead, the EU should focus on energy efficiency and financial support for poor households to switch to clean energy, write Jan Rosenow and Louise Sunderland.
Jan Rosenow is European programmes director and Louise Sunderland is a researcher, advisor, and policy analyst at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an NGO focusing on policy to accelerate the transition to a clean, reliable and energy efficient future.
The debate about how to reduce emissions from home heating is hotting up, but it risks being derailed by vocal proponents for the use of hydrogen in place of fossil gas. Affordable home heating with hydrogen is, quite literally, a ‘pipe dream’ [noun: a hope or plan that is impossible to achieve]. The available evidence indicates hydrogen has no significant future in the mix of affordable home-heating choices. And it would also most certainly exacerbate ene