EU CAR MAKERS DISPUTE CLAIMS THEY ARE AHEAD IN MEETING PLANNED 2020 CO2 EMISSION TARGETS
December 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
EUROPEAN car producers may claim that meeting the European Commission's planned 2020 95 g CO2/km emission targets is tough, but a report published by the Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) claims that the automakers are actually on track. Moreover, the report showed that the Europeans are well on course to meet their 2015 emission reduction targets of 130 g CO2/km.
"We already knew that Europe's car makers were on track to exceed 2015 targets by a big margin", said T&E director Jos Dings. "We ...
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