Car manufacturers must speed progress to achieve agreed CO2 targets: EC report
Fri 24 June 2005
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European, Japanese and Korean car firms must significantly improve average new car CO2 emissions in order to meet their 1998 voluntary agreement with the EU, according to latest annual figures released by the European Commission.
The European Commission's latest (5th) annual monitoring report on the EU's CO2 and cars strategy shows that average new car CO2 emissions fell by over 20g/km between 1995 and 2003.
Using member states’ data in 2003, the average specific CO2 emissions of the fleets are 163 g/km for ACEA, 172 g/km for JAMA and 179 g/km for KAMA. If ACEA data is used, its average would be 161 g/km.
Compared to 1995, the average specific CO2 emissions have been reduced by 22 g/km (11.9 %) for ACEA (24 g/km or 13.0 % if using ACEA figures), 24 g/km (12.2 %) for JAMA and 18 g/km (9.1 %) for KAMA.
The report says that JAMA and ACEA are "on track", but there is "a real risk that KAMA will not meet its 2004 intermediate target", and that "this could affect the whole approach on CO2"
In order to meet the final target of 140 g CO2/km additional efforts are necessary. Between 1995-2008/9 the reduction rate was around 2 %, (3.5 g/km per year). In the years until 2008/9 the reduction rates must now reach an average of 2.8 % for ACEA, 3.1 % for JAMA and 3.6 % for KAMA.
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