Commission car emissions proposal fails climate challenge
20th December 2007
In a long-awaited proposal, presented today, for curbing global warming pollution from new cars, the European Commission has relegated climate change to the back seat and granted major concessions to the car industry, said Greenpeace.
“Last week, in Bali, the European Union stood up like a lion for the world’s climate - this week the Union’s executive arm is going down like a lamb and putting car makers’ short-term profits before our common survival” said Franziska Achterberg, Greenpeace’s EU transport policy campaigner.
