France pushes ahead with carbon cutting legislation plans
Thu 08 May 2008
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France is pushing ahead with legislation to improve the country's carbon efficiency. Amongst the proposals is a draft law, known as 'Grenelle 1' which covers a range of measures including plans to reduce average CO2 emissions from all cars in circulation in France to 130g/km by 2020. Meanwhile, Germany's car makers are claiming that they have recently made the most rapid cuts in new vehicle emissions.
Grenelle 1 also includes includes climate change mitigation measures focusing on buildings and agriculture, as well as transport.
The French initiative is a part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans, announced last year, to make France the most carbon-efficient economy in the EU by 2010. The 'Grenelle Environnement' has been a process of consultation with the public and engaged stakeholders, leading to legislative proposals by the Government. (See background link.)
German car manufacturers, meanwhile, say that they are reducing carbon emissions from new vehicles more quickly than car makers in other countries. The German car industry body VDA. says that first-quarter sales figures from 2008 showed German-made cars emitted 3.5 per cent less CO2 than in the same period a year earlier. This compares with a 2.8 per cent cut for cars made in other countries.
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