CONCITO-blog

The International Transport Forum, ITF, and its annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany is something like a “Davos-meeting for the transportation sector”. Transport Ministers and deputies from around the World – The United States to China; Lithuania to South Africa - meet over three days in May, and all kinds of transport experts, stakeholders and media join in to confront the sector’s current challenges.

The European electricity market is a crucial tool in reaching EU climate neutrality. The next two months could make or break the electricity market, depending on legislators in the Council and in the European Parliament. Our wish is that legislators appreciate the value of the electricity market and focus on strengthening its ability to deliver a climate neutral Europe.

Public kitchens are essential for promoting climate-friendly eating habits in Denmark, and in recent years, the use of climate data on food has gained momentum as a tool that provides new insights and motivates more climate-friendly purchases and meals in public institutions. This effort should be further promoted in the coming years.

Food crises and the necessary transformation of the global food systems was on the agenda at COP27 in Egypt, but there's still a long way to go.

Aviation contributes significantly to climate change; however, the climate impact is for the most part currently unregulated.

The green transition of the agricultural sector is a major topic in the election campaign, and for good reason. The upcoming parliament must contribute to ensuring unprecedented greenhouse gas reductions from Danish agriculture in a very short time, and preferably with a beneficial effect on the global climate.

A new EU regulation aims to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradation, reduce biodiversity loss, and halt greenhouse gas emissions. However, the proposal itself is likely to just shift import of high-risk products to countries with less strict deforestation regulation.

Climate change is increasingly seen as a conflict driver in the most vulnerable and fragile countries of the Global South. Indeed, the Syrian conflict has been assessed as conceivably the first conflict where it has been demonstrated with relative certainty that repeated and prolonged droughts over a short period of years laid the ground for economic collapse in - and internal migration from - rural areas towards the major cities, and that this migration subsequently contributed to internal social unrest and conflict in Syria.

It is unsustainable for the EU to use large farmland areas to grow crops for energy when the world is facing a growing food crisis. Denmark should work for the EU to suspend the EU biofuels blending requirement and stop meeting the CO2e displacement requirement with crop-based biofuels.

To avoid further disasters, we must choose the right solutions to the looming global food crisis. The EU and Denmark should accelerate the shift to land-efficient food production and consumption and reduce the use of crops for energy