Greenpeace: '10 easy steps to cut car emissions by 2012'
Sat 20 September 2008
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Greenpeace has published a 'Climate Control Manual' which it says is a response to the proposed EU 'Cars and CO2' legislation. The manual proposes a range of practical steps that can be taken by manufacturers to cut CO2 emissions from the cars they produce.
Greenpeace issued the publication as part of its campaign to persuade MEPs to agree strong legislation to ensure that passenger cars play their role in the overall reduction of CO2 emissions.
Greenpeace is calling for manufacturers to be given a target of a fleet average of 120g/CO2 per km by 2012, and for a long-term target of 80g/km by 2020,in line with the EU’s overall emissions targets.
The document claims to show that it is possible to reduce CO2 emissions, of individual cars and of the fleet as a whole, using existing technology and that there is no need for the “phase in” that the industry has been calling for.
Proposed measures include the wider introduction of 'stop-start' technology, low rolling resistant tyres and the scrapping of the two largest engines for each volume model.
Meanwhile, Transport and Environment (T&E) and Friends of the Earth Europe have launched an advertising campaign highlighting what they say is a lack of progress in improving new car fuel efficiency. The advert uses the example of a VW Beetle and states that the model used as much fuel to drive 100km in 1948 as it does in 2008.
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