BRUSSELS PLOTS MAJOR INTERVENTION IN TRANSPORT SECTOR CO2 AND SECURITY
November 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is writing a white paper on transport that would harmonise European transport systems to such an extent, it could call the European Union (EU) "a single transport area".
A draft (the final version may come in December), read by the Surveyor shows Brussels considering toughening its CO2 reduction targets for transport by switching from relative targets (emissions per kilometre of travel) to absolute targets - making sure levels of greenhouse gas fall, period: "It may be asked whether relative improvements ...
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