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Warning to EU legislators against the charlatanry of environmental lobbyists à la T&E

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Published: August 8th, 2024,
Last updated: August 9th, 2024

By Thomas Koch
Thomas Koch heads the Institute for Piston Machines at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

In July, the international scientific society IASTEC published a statement on the EU’s car CO2 regulation. It discussed the consequences of the legislation for 2030. The key message of this statement is that the EU regulation on CO2 fleet regulation will miss the targets for a rapid reduction in CO2 emissions from passenger cars. As a result, the EU will be in breach of the Paris Climate Agreement. IASTEC is therefore calling on the legislator to revise the CO2 fleet legislation promptly – including a tightening of targets based on the expected CO2 emissions.

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