Mobility and transport
The Low-emission zone as an active exnovation policy
On the way towards the phase-out of the most polluting vehicles in Brussels?
Exnovation in the field of mobility and transport often seems to take the shape of a low-emission zone. This is at least the case for the Brussels Capital Region, as well as for several other European cities.
To improve air quality, the Low Emission Zone (or LEZ) has been implemented in 2018 by the administration in charge of environmental issues (Bruxelles Environnement): gradually, the oldest vehicles are banned in Brussels. Eventually, combustion engines could be banned completely in Brussels, for the purpose of the fight against climate change.
Those measures are being lively debated. The legitimacy of the LEZ has been questioned on some aspects and the future developments in this policy are still unknown.
In GOSETE, we seek to address the following research questions:
Is the LEZ an ambitious policy measure at the city level in order to address current exnovation challenges? What about other urban mobility measures related to exnovation challenges? What do we precisely want to phase-out and what is the direction that we want to take?
For more information on the origin of this research worksite: please read the complete dedicated article (in French)
If you are involved in this working area and you want to contribute to GOSETE by sharing your view: please contact us!
The first results of the GOSETE project for this working area
The report of the Sustainability assessment research team titled "The LEZ and its future from an exnovation perspective - Potential sustainability impacts and alternative paths".
On the 2nd of March we hold the workshop "Exploring sustainability impacts of prospective scenarios for low-emission mobility in Brussels". This workshop gathered a serie of Brussels and Belgian actors to explore the range of sustainability impacts of exnovation scenarios. Please find here the report (in French).
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Climat: place aux mesures qui dérangent
L’écho
5/11/2021
L’édito plaide pour des objectifs ambitieux (comme fixés par la Wallonie) traduits en un calendrier clair de mesures concrètes, et tant pis si elles dérangent (comme les mesures d’exnovation prises par la Flandre: sortie des technologies obsolètes – chaudières au gaz, voitures thermiques, obligation d’isolation, etc.)
D’Ieteren va ouvrir un magasin de vélos dans son siège d’Ixelles, rue du Mail
La DH
04/10/2021
Le premier distributeur de voitures en Belgique s’ouvre au marché du vélo: est-ce un signe de déstabilisation du secteur automobile?
Les Français et les propositions de Yannick Jadot
IFOP
04/10/2021
Quatre politiques d’exnovation selon les français : “la fin de l’élevage intensif rassemble, [mais] les clivages générationnels apparaissent nets sur la sortie du nucléaire et du diesel“