GROWTH OF ECOTAXES GIVE GLOBAL AUTO SECTOR CAUSE FOR CONCERN

BY DEIRDRE MASON GAVIN BLAIR ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL AS the Copenhagen conference charged with forging a new international climate change treaty gets under way this month, the auto industry worldwide will be looking closely at how the deliberations will affect its business. For while transport has largely evaded the cap-and-trade systems that emerged from the outgoing Kyoto Protocol, there is a global consensus that the sector must in future play its part in cutting global CO2 emissions. Two weeks before international delegates gathered in the Danish ...


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