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Udo Becker: "European Directive on CO2 emissions less than unambitious"
"The overall effects of the new requirements are less than unambitious, while everybody knows that our planet needs ambitious solutions."
Dr Udo Becker
To celebrate the first MindsinMotion.net jubilee we go back in time with various speakers at our founding conference.
At the Energy in Motion conference of 2004, organised by the then Dutch EU presidency, Becker was chair of the session: 'Sustainable urban transport: clean vehicles for healthy cities'.
"I must admit there is a new directive on CO2 emission limits for cars: emission standards were set at an average of 130 grammes per kilometre in 2015. But that applies only to passenger cars, and only in the test cycle, and energy consuming extras like airconditioning are left out of the equation. Also, 'dual mapping', which is a form of manipulating the test cycle so that the resulting emission values differ from real life emissions, still seems possible. The overall effects of the new requirements are less than unambitious, while everybody knows that our planet needs ambitious solutions.“
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