July 2010 management briefing: The low-CO2 challenge
Despite the slow progress to replace the Kyoto Protocol, automotive manufacturers are well aware that they will come under increasing pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions of their models and their manufacturing process. This briefing looks at the where the industry is now, the challenges ahead for transport sector emissions and the role of publicly funded low-carbon research schemes in Europe.
JULY MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: The low-CO2 challenge (Part 3 – guide to public research funding)
3 August 2010
Public research funding is a key component of the auto sector’s drive to reduce CO2 emissions. For example, the European Union’s (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7) funds innovation in a wide range of industries, and automotive research figures prominently.
JULY MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: The low-CO2 challenge (Part 2 – emissions trading and transport)
26 July 2010
After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012.
JULY MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: The low-CO2 challenge (Part 1)
16 July 2010
Despite the slow progress to replace the Kyoto Protocol, auto manufacturers are well aware that they will come under increasing pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions of their models and their manufacturing process. And electric vehicles will not become widespread quickly enough to reduce their exposure to CO2 trading, caps and carbon-based taxation. Part 1 of this three-part just-auto management briefing looks at examples of vehicle manufacturer initiatives
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