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• Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships will help secure the supply of raw materials, clean energy, sustainable transport fuels, and clean technology from around the world. Kluwer Competition Law Blog
• The US's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will doubtless slow efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the transition to renewable energy and electrification of transport. WoodMac.Site.Features.Shared.ViewModels.Metadata.Publis
• Studies indicate that integrating AI into transportation infrastructure can reduce traffic congestion by 30% and decrease travel time in major cities by 25% by 2035. Emirates24|7
• The emerging markets for clean energy, transportation, and manufacturing are expected to be huge influences on the global economy. Electronic Design
• Interim targets by 2030 include electrifying two-thirds of last-mile delivery vehicles and increasing the share of more sustainable fuels across all transportation modes to more than 30%, which includes also the use of sustainable aviation fuel. Asian Aviation
• The European Green Deal calls for a modal shift to rail and inland waterways to decarbonize transport and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. MDPI
• Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Transport to invest £30 million in innovation projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. Space South Central
• Strategies around energy demand could reduce emissions from buildings by 51-85% and transport by 37-91% by 2050, compared to a current policies scenario, research in Nature Energy said. Carbon Brief
• Guest spending: Nominal hotel guest spending across lodging, transportation, food and beverage, retail, and other expenses is expected to reach $777.25 billion in 2025, a 4% increase from $747.17 billion in 2024. Asian Hospitality
• In 2025, Fit for 55 will see the implementation of a separate emissions trading system called ETS 2, which will seek to reduce emissions from buildings, road transport, and fuels for additional sectors and will complement other policies of the European Green Deal. Greenabl
• Emissions reduction potentials in 2030, with respect to the reference scenario, are 3-16% (ACT), 3-19% (TEC) and 10-31% of direct buildings emissions and 4-15% (ACT), 2-10% (TEC) and 3-17% of direct transport emissions. Nature
• China aims to produce 100,000-200,000 tons of low-carbon hydrogen annually by 2025 and create a diverse hydrogen energy ecosystem across transportation, energy storage, and industrial sectors by 2035. Eversheds Sutherland
• Natural gas will be transported through the existing pipeline to the St Fergus gas terminal in the north-east of Scotland, which supplies the UK's national gas network. WebWire
• European regulations require the transport sector to include 29% renewable energies in its final consumption or to reduce its emissions by at least 14.5% by 2030. IFPEN
• A recent report by Transport & Environment (T & E) explores the significant potential for battery recycling to reduce Europe's reliance on raw materials and advance a sustainable circular economy. Landbell Group
• The transport sector is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, and has shown little progress in the reduction of emissions in recent decades, with Member States projecting that domestic transport emissions will only fall below their 1990 levels in 2032. Global Railway Review
• Supporters from across the European institutions and other key stakeholders alerted Europe could miss out on creating jobs and reducing transport emissions, if rail failed to secure significant EU funding as part of the new Multi-Financial Framework 2028-2034. Global Railway Review
• In the C400 - lin scenario, by 2050, liquid fuels remain a relevant option mainly in the transport sector and in industry. Nature
• The H2 share experiences much less expansion, particularly in buildings (where its contribution remains negligible even by 2050), but the net-zero emission scenario ranges still display values up to about 20% by 2050 for industry and transportation. Nature
• Driven by rising demand for transportation fuels and fuels for home cooking, consumption of liquid fuels in India is forecast to increase by 330,000 bpd in 2025 (up from 220,000 bpd in 2024), the EIA added, in its final short-term energy outlook publication for last year. Energy Connects
• While many agree that low-carbon hydrogen will play a major role in reducing global emissions, transporting it to energy importing countries is difficult and costly because it must be compressed, liquified, and transported at -423 °F (- 253 °C). HydrogenWire
• Emissions from transport are now projected to peak in 2025, before the impact of increased EV ownership begins reducing transport emissions over the coming decades. Jalopnik

Last updated: 14 February 2025