EMISSIONS TRADING AND THE TRANSPORT SECTOR

BY DEIRDRE MASON After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012. One of the toughest nuts to crack will be agreeing how road transport can be integrated within this new global anti-emissions deal. However, while accepting the difficulties of allocating responsibility for carbon between auto manufacturers, dealers and users, governments are accepting that one way or ...


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