For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment [Dec 2015 – Apr 2016] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, studio Gear Up took preparatory steps, together with involved stakeholders in the sustainable biofuels sector in the Netherlands to found a Platform Sustainable Biofuels (‘Platform Duurzame Biobrandstoffen). The aim of …
For: NOVE – Dutch association for independent fuel suppliers on land and water [Jul 2015 – Jan 2016] studio Gear Up supports NOVE and its members in understanding the biofuel market and policy developments in Europe and the Netherlands. By providing market, policy and regulation updates NOVE members are able …
At the COP21 in Paris, 195 countries adopted the Climate Agreement to limit the rise of global temperature “to well below 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5 ºC. The text of the Agreement can be found here. Now it is up to …
For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment/Netherlands Enterprise Agency [May – Nov 2015] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment studio Gear Up is operating as a ‘quartermaster’ to initiate concrete actions on biofuels in heavy duty road transport. These actions should help reaching a sustainable fuel mix that …
Quartermaster for biofuels projects in heavy-duty road transport Read More
For: TKI Gas [Jul – Sep 2015] For TKI Gas, studio Gear Up analysed the technology developments of hydrogen and its application for transport and energy storage. The analysis addressed the necessity for innovation support by TKI Gas to establish synergies between the ongoing hydrogen developments and the existing gas …
The strong dominance of fossil resources (share-wise) in energy consumption can make it easy to overlook the disruptive changes that are taking place in today’s energy landscape: for more than a decade now, total energy consumption has been going down in the European Union – at the cost of fossil fuels. …
In today’s European energy landscape – only renewables show growth Read More
Over 2014 the world’s energy consumption has increased, as can be conluded on basis of the June-2015 numbers of the BP Energy Statistical Review. The majority of resources to fuel this growth are still fossil based.The share of renewables is rapidly growing in importance. However, decreasing world fossil fuel consumption and …
World energy consumption keeps growing – fossil resources still dominant Read More
Tuesday, March 31, Mrs. Hendricks, the German Minister of Environment, pointed out that after three years of increasing CO2 emissions in Germany, “the trend finally points into the right direction”. Germany saw 4,3% lower CO2 emissions in 2014. It is a start, but a lot has to be done to …
Germany will need a trend reversal to reach the 2020 energy and climate targets Read More
Europe-based feedstocks for biofuels have gained dominancy in the last couple of years, official reporting in the Netherlands and Germany shows. Also the greenhouse gas (GHG) savings established by the use of biofuels in these two countries have increased. Europe was, at the time, debating the pathways to a decarbonized, resource …
Trend towards Europe-based feedstocks for biofuels Read More
Europe is transforming towards a low-carbon and resource efficient economy. This will impact various economic sectors such as; the energy, transport and mobility, and the agricultural sector. As a result, many EU Member States are exploring pathways to restructure their energy production and consumption patterns. Several countries are designing processes …
