COP26: controversy over global combustio • Table.Briefings

A joint declaration on the global phase-out of internal combustion vehicles from 2040 onward is not only finding supporters at the UN Climate Change Conference. Germany is hesitant, Volkswagen rejects the agreement. Meanwhile, Greenpeace announces it will sue the carmaker for insufficient climate protection measures.

A possible date for the global phase-out of the internal combustion engine is becoming the central question on the transport day of the UN climate conference in Glasgow. Today, host Great Britain wants to present an agreement according to which only new cars that no longer emit any pollutants are to be registered worldwide from the year 2040. In leading industrial nations, the zero-emissions limit is to be introduced five years earlier.

COP26: controversy over global combustion engine phase-out

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