COMPANY CAR FLEET SUPPLIERS FACE POTENTIAL INVOLVEMENT IN EU EMISSIONS TRADING REGIME
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
VEHICLE manufacturers, and even leasing and rental companies, may have to grapple with the complexity of trading greenhouse gas emissions from 2013, should the European Commission conclude this year that road transport must operate under tradeable pollution permits. Large scale and fixed heavy industry is already part of the European Union's (EU) existing emissions trading regime, and EU ministers and MEPs recently voted to include air transport within its rules. But for road transport, the situation is more complicated, and Commission officials ...
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