Peter Kasten

Part 4 of 7 studies on sectoral contributions to the 2040 target

EU 2040 Climate Target: Contributions of the transport sector

The EU is legally obliged to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and has an interim target for 2030 of reducing net GHG emissions by 55% compared to 1990. The European Climate Law also requires the EU to adopt a climate target for 2040. In its communication of 6 February 2024, the European Commission

Climate protection in aviation and maritime transport: Roadmaps for achieving the climate goal

The climate neutrality of air and sea transport can hardly be achieved without the accelerated use of almost GHG-neutral fuels. Such fuels are generated from renewable electricity and are thus called electro fuels or (synthetic) e-fuels. To illustrate how these e-fuels can be made available and how

Working Paper 8/2021

Sustainability dimensions of imported hydrogen

To achieve the climate neutrality target in Germany for 2045, large quantities of hydrogen will have to be imported from regions outside the EU. This report analyses the expected far-reaching and multi-layered impacts on importing countries. It focuses on the production of hydrogen based on renewabl

Total costs of electro-fuels and direct air captureand carbon storage while taking into account directandupstream emissions and environmental risks

E-fuels versus DACCS

Study on behalf of Transport & Environment (T&E) For defossilizing European aviation,synthetic fuels or electro fuels (e-fuels) might play a pivotal role in the longterm.The UK’s Committee on Climate Change, however, suggests that offsetting aviation’s emission from fossil kerosene thro

In the Spotlight

Electromobility: Electric cars, plug-in hybrids and batteries

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany, transport is still a problem area: while emissions from industry, buildings and agriculture fell between 1990 and 2019, emissions from the transport sector did not. Electromobility can help resolve this pressing environmental problem. But this

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Scenarios for carbon-neutral transport: Which actions achieve the goal?

The transport sector’s contribution to achieving the climate targets is still unsatisfactory. In contrast to other sectors such as energy and buildings, CO2 emissions have not fallen in comparison to 1990, the baseline year – apart from the decrease caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There are imm