ESC Sustainability Newsletter No. 28

1 May - 5 May 2023

Preface

ESC’ weekly Sustainability Newsletter contains a selection of the week’s most relevant information, webinars, and events in the sustainability field. It will typically be published at the end of the week. Any upcoming important developments will be announced within our regular news posts.

The newsletter provides an information update (news, press releases, regulations, and reports) as well as an overview of past and upcoming events (conferences, workshops, meetings). For logged in members, an overview of previous sustainability newsletters can be found here.

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2 May 2023
ARRIVAL Platform
ENTRANCE project
ESC news

Access past webinars, events, and other videos on the ARRIVAL platform: The ARRIVAL platform has been recently created as a merger of ENTRANCE and RECIPROCITY platforms and is an essential tool in the fight against climate change, enabling stakeholders to revolutionize the European transport sector. By registering at https://www.entrance-platform.eu/entrance-document-repository/, you’ll gain access to a wealth of knowledge and resources to help drive sustainable innovations in transport, ultimately contributing to a greener, more efficient future.

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3 May 2023
Priority update
European Parliament

Green Deal: key to a climate-neutral and sustainable EU: The European Parliament has updated their 'Green Deal' priority website. Background is that in November 2019, the  Parliament declared a climate emergency asking the European Commission to adapt all its proposals in line with a 1.5 °C target for limiting global warming and ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced. In response, the Commission unveiled the European Green Deal, a roadmap for Europe becoming a climate-neutral continent by 2050.

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3 May 2023
Article
Sustainability Magazine

33% of shipping industry stagnant on green fuel transition: The Sustainability Magazine has published an article summarising a new report by the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, the Global Maritime Forum, and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, with analysis by McKinsey. According to the article, the report reveals that regarding the shipping industry's transition to lower-carbon fuels one-third of participants are uncertain about the type of fuel that their ships will utilise in the coming decades.

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4 May 2023
EP Response
European Parliament

European Parliament response on French investment plan not matching the TEN-T core network priorities: The European Parliament (response given by Ms Vălean) has provided a response to a question by the Spanish authorities regarding the impacts of delaying any investments by the French government for the construction of a section of the Atlantic corridor forming part of the TEN-T core network, connecting the Iberian Peninsula with the rest of the continent via Biriatou. The link on the left side will lead you to the response by Ms. Vălean, published by the European Parliament.

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2 May 2023
Working Party
EU Council

Meeting of EU Working Party on Transport - Intermodal Questions and Networks: another meeting of the WP (see newsletter no. 27) has been announced for 8 May 2023 to further discuss the European Court of Auditors special report n° 08/2023 "Intermodal freight transport: EU still far from getting freight off the road", and the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network.

Upcoming events

EU Green Week 2023 conference

Jun 06, 2023 09:30:00 am

On 6 and 7 June 2023, sessions organised by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment, with invited speakers from the world of politics, business, NGOs, and academia will ...

9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023)

Jun 13, 2023 12:00:00 am

The International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC) aims to provide an open forum for researchers, industry representatives, government officials and citizens. Together they will explore, discuss, and introduce leading ...

ETCR Seminar 2023

Jul 03, 2023 12:00:00 am

The European Union Agency for Railways, the European Training Centre for Railways (ETCR), and the College of Europe jointly organise the 60th edition ...

Sustainability LIVE London 2023

Sep 06, 2023 12:00:00 am

From 6 - 7 September 2023, Sustainability LIVE is back in London at the Business Design Centre. It is a high level event where very influential figures from ...

European Rail Safety Days 2023

Sep 20, 2023 12:00:00 am

20-22/09/2023: In this upcoming edition, the Safety Days will focus on how to nurture a learning railway system, a topic of paramount importance for safe operations. 

The conference promises ...

VERGE – The Climate Tech Event

Oct 24, 2023 12:00:00 am

24-26 October 2023 - VERGE 23 is the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. It is the center of gravity ...

More events? Please find a complete list of upcoming events here (you need to be logged in as a member to see this).