Air saves CO2
Meanwhile, a study by the Bridgestone tyre company says European motorists are emitting an unnecessary 18 million tonnes of CO2 and wasting €15 billion a year, all because they do not have enough air in their tyres.
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Criticism of CO2 from new cars proposals
Environment ministers from Denmark, the Netherlands and Ireland have criticised the Commission for trying to weaken the EU’s commitment for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from new cars.
Europe's car market long overdue for fuel-efficiency fix
In today's Financial Times, Jos Dings, director of T&E, writes:
The failure of carmakers to live up to the commitment they made to the European Union to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars highlights a clear case of market failure. Regulation is therefore a first best, not the "third-best policy" as you describe it in your editorial "Curbing emissions" (February 12).
Compromise is good politics, but a lot more needs to be done
Editorial by Jos Dings
What a month! There was good news and bad news, and bad news that turned into good news. In general, we should be happy at the first binding targets for car makers and the decarbonisation targets for fuels. But behind it all came another highly authoritative and worrying report on climate change, which shows why compromise may be good politics, but it makes us fall further behind the clock on tackling global warming.
‘Mindless scaremongering’ helps weaken cars target
The next generation of EU rules requiring car makers to reduce carbon dioxide from new vehicles will involve a weakening of an 11-year-old commitment on fighting global warming.
Europe set to weaken key climate target for new cars
The European Commission has proposed to weaken an eleven-year-old climate target for new cars just five days after the global scientific community warned policymakers to take serious and urgent action on climate change. The Commission plans to introduce a legally binding target for average CO2 emissions from new cars of 130 grammes per kilometer, ten grammes more than than the standing target of 120 g/km set in 1996.
Environmental NGOs call on Barroso to legislate on cars and climate
The directors of ten leading environmental NGOs have co-signed a letter to Commission President Barroso calling on him to bring forward binding legislation on cars and climate change. The letter follows Barroso's intervention this week to postpone a planned review of the EU strategy on reducing CO2 from cars.
Download the letter (pdf).
MEPs’ decision on SUVs emissions a ‘gift’ for car makers
T&E has accused MEPs of favouring the makers of sports utility vehicles at the cost of the rest of society.
Car makers say CO2 limits unfair
Europe’s car makers are calling on the Commission not to impose limits for carbon dioxide emissions, saying the politicians have not done their job in providing tax incentives for cleaner cars.
Christmas comes early for SUV makers
The European Parliament has voted on new vehicle emissions standards (Euro 5 /6) in a compromise deal with ministers that allows makers of gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) an extra three years to comply.