EU CARS MEET CO2 REDUCTION TARGETS TWO YEARS BEFORE THE DEADLINE
May 9th, 2014
Final statistics to be published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the fall are expected to confirm that the average CO2 emissions of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) in 2013 were already below the European Union’s (EU) 2015 required target.Provisional figures released by the EEA on April 30 showed that this level was 127 grams of CO2 per kilometer last year, already under the 130 grams of CO2/km to be achieved by 2015, as mandated by an EU regulation passed in 2009. The values refer to the average emissions of the EU 2013 fleet, so they do ...
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