The European institutions are facing an unprecedented challenge: providing sound policies responding to the urgent need to address climate change.  

As part of the commitment to the Paris Agreement, the European Commission, mandated by the European Parliament and the European Council, had initiated the process of crafting a long-term strategy for energy and climate in the EU; the foundations of such a strategy were reflected in the long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050.

It will now be for the upcoming European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, to develop concrete policy initiatives to reach this objective, in cooperation with a freshly renewed European Parliament and the Council.

UPEI invites you to this conference to discuss the policy instruments providing for the effective deployment of low carbon solutions in the road transport sector, while ensuring consumers’ acceptance.

Panellists and participants will discuss, inter alia, the following issues:

- how to decarbonise fuels to achieve climate objectives; 

- how to deploy alternative fuels and vehicles; 

- what should be the role of taxation.