Overzealous or good behavior? Nine member countries of Europe have sent a joint letter to the Brussels Commission to ask for a concrete, legal framework and restrictive standards to set a global release date for heat engines in private transport.
While Europe wants to turn to carbon neutrality by 2050, Malta, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania and Luxembourg want to step up the pace.
The letter, published by an MEP of Dutch origin, calls for a higher tone. As if, in certain countries, this was not enough, it would be necessary “to tighten the standards of CO2 emissions significantly to accelerate the transition to zero emission mobility”. The countries in question ask that the Commission be “encouraged to present an assessment and a release date” of the heat engine.
It is true that at present, Europe has not set any framework on this subject. It does so indirectly through the more restrictive standards, but countries have no timetable obligation vis-à-vis the ban on sales of heat engines. This is what explains why all countries have not taken the same direction: some want to exit in 2040, and others, long before.
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