Reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from trasport

Abstract

Transport is responsible for around a quarter of World greenhouse gas emissions making it the second biggest greenhouse gas emitting sector after industry. Road transport alone contributes about onefifth of the EU's total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). While emissions from other sectors are generally falling, those from transport have continued to increase until 2008 when transport emissions started to decrease on the back of oil prices, increased efficiency of passenger cars and slower growth in mobility. The paper presents the information on EU measures to reduce fuel consumption, as well as CO2 emissions from road transport introducing limits for CO2 emission from passenger cars, vans and heavy duty trucks. These limits follow ACEA voluntary agreement on fuel consumption reduction and define the targets for CO2 emission in the year 2015 and 2020.