1990
1990
Eight NGOs decided they needed an organisation to fight for clean vehicles and transport pricing in the European Economic Community. The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) was born.
Our 30-year journey
From evolution to revolution
T&E 2019 annual report
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T&E's reach in 2019
9,115
Online articles
2,850,713
social media videos views
10,788,122
Twitter impressions
3,461,568
Facebook impressions
793,000
petition signatures
434,563
Website users
33,367
Online supporters
5,001
Email alerts subscribers
5,156
Bulletin readers
4,459
LinkedIn group members
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1998
1998
T&E warns of carmakers manipulating air pollution lab tests. Some 17 years later, the Dieselgate scandal exposes industry-wide cheating of emissions tests.
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1999
1999
Thanks to meetings with high level decision makers, T&E helps secure the EU Commission’s first road charging law for trucks in 1999, acknowledging in law the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
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2009
2009
T&E's campaign ‘Two Beetles; sixty years apart; same fuel efficiency’ helps turn the tide in the debate for car CO2 standards. In 2009 the EU crosses the rubicon and introduces its first mandatory standards for new cars - four years after an auto industry lobbyist told T&E’s director that it wouldn’t happen because the industry “won’t allow it.”
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2012
2012
After years of turning a blind eye to aviation emissions, high level stakeholders start listening and, by 2019 politicians are heeding T&E’s advice to strengthen the aviation ETS - and even include shipping.
2019
2019
T&E works with its grassroots to tell lawmakers #NotInMyTank and to stop support for biofuels which drive deforestation and climate change. In 2019, the European Commission labels palm oil in diesel as unsustainable.
2020
2020
T&E’s membership grows to 60 organisations, and national offices are opened in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland and the UK. The growth enhances T&E's influence - including at international bodies like the IMO, which bans ships from using high-sulphur fuel.
