Replacing 50 million obsolete cars would lead to savings of 24.5 billion Euros a year in pollution, accident and congestion costs
Brussels,Belgium -Truck Europe, by Michel Buckinx -29 Oct 2010: -- ECG (the European vehicles logistics organisation), is calling for a new approach to scrappage schemes. This is in order to increase the profitability and sustainability of the vehicle transport system. Constantino Baldissara, president of the association: “There are still millions of cars on the road causing heavy pollution. They should be gradually taken off the roads”. According to the ECG, replacing 50 million obsolete cars would lead to savings of 24.5 billion Euros a year in pollution, accident and congestion costs...
* EU - New strategy to put price on pollution
Brussels,Belgium -EurActiv -2 November 2010: -- The European Commission wants to make transport users pay for emissions, noise and other harm they cause as part of proposals laid down in a draft White Paper on Transport, seen by EurActiv... In 2001, the European Commission presented a White Paper proposing 60 measures to overhaul the EU's transport policy by 2010 in order to make it more sustainable and avoid huge economic losses caused by congestion, pollution and accidents... The draft policy paper, which lays down the European Commission's plans for the next decade, envisages a radically different transport system by 2020, with a single European transport area, open markets, greener infrastructure and low-carbon technologies... Transport emissions rose by 24% between 1990 and 2008, amounting to 19.5% of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Commission's estimates... As a result, the transport sector will have to reduce its emissions by at least 45-60% below 1990 levels if the EU is to keep up with its climate change objectives for 2050, the document argues... In order to improve the situation, the Commission is floating the idea of introducing targets for earmarking transport revenues to pay for TEN-T infrastructure. The option currently exists but member states do not generally exploit it... The Commission's economic and financial affairs department submitted a request to delete the latter point from the white paper, the draft shows, and it is likely to prove controversial in national capitals as well... (Photo from theecologist.org: Transport is by far and away the biggest contributor to air pollution levels in London) Labels: air pollution debates
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