{"id":313050,"date":"2025-11-07T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=67213"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:13:58","slug":"eu-institutions-agree-on-system-to-count-transport-emissions-but-it-wont-be-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=313050","title":{"rendered":"EU institutions agree on system to count transport emissions, but it won\u2019t be mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Parliament (EP) and Council reached a preliminary agreement on \u201ca single EU methodology for calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport services.\u201d Despite providing a unified method across all modes of transport, participation will remain on a voluntary basis, leaving it all up to companies.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>This initiative, known as CountEmissionsEU, is one of the pillars of the Greening Freight Package. In practice, the European Commission will develop \u201ca public, simple and free-of-charge calculation tool, backed by manual on how to use it\u201d. Companies will not be forced to calculate their emissions, but if they choose to do so, they will have to utilise this method. And here comes the first problem.<\/p>\n

EU institutions are (too) often reluctant to make regulations mandatory, hindering their effectiveness. If the purpose of counting emissions is to showcase which modality is \u2018greener\u2019, keeping it on a voluntary basis might provide skewed data. It is not far-fetched to think that only companies with good scores will reveal their data, while the rest will keep it secret for reputation reasons.<\/p>\n