Brussels, June 8 (BNA): The future of motor transport in Europe may become clearer and cleaner on Wednesday when the European Parliament decides whether to ban combustion-engine vehicles starting in the middle of the next decade.
The vote scheduled for the European Union Council later in Strasbourg, France, is part of an EU bill to step up the fight against global warming.
Cars are responsible for about 12% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change, according to the Associated Press.
Highlighting a clause that would force automakers to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 100% in 2035, a move that would amount to that year’s European Union ban on the sale of new cars running on gasoline or diesel.
The auto industry and some political voices are urging a more gradual transition to all-electric fleets, with a 90% CO2 reduction in 2035 as a potential compromise.
Also on the table is a proposal for a 55% reduction in CO2 from cars in 2030 compared to 2021. European Union law already requires automakers to reduce CO2 by an average of 37.5% in 2030 compared to last year.
Regardless of the 705-seat parliament’s decision on stricter targets for reducing vehicle emissions, the final EU agreement will only have governments in EU countries issue their verdict in the coming weeks or months.
The cleaner cars bill is part of a set of proposed European legislation that would cut greenhouse gases in the European Union by 55% in 2030 compared to 1990 instead of just the 40% previously agreed upon during this period.
A large part of these cuts will come from power plants and factories. These two sectors, unlike automobiles, have their own greenhouse gases curbed in the EU through the European emissions trading system which every year reduces the total supply of pollution permits required.
insult