General Motors is first carmaker to join US Climate Action Partnership
Tue 22 May 2007
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General Motors has become the first carmaker to join a US-based coalition of large companies and environmental groups lobbying calling for mandatory action on a national level to fight climate change.
Bloomberg reports that GM has announced that it would join the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which is seeking greenhouse gas emission reductions of 60 to 80 per cent by 2050. USCAP supports national legislation requiring “significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions” via a combination of mandatory caps and flexible, market-based measures, such as emissions-trading schemes.
GM said it is expanding development of electrically driven vehicles, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cells.
The company said the approach is a more effective solution than the US government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program that over three decades "has fallen dramatically short of its stated goals."
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