Thursday, April 10, 2008

Can car industry ever be green?

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Traffic hell on the M25. Photograph: Dan Chung/Guardian

"Act now or the world we know will be lost for ever," said a Guardian headline across two pages devoted to a digest of the wake-up Stern report on climate change.

Reflecting this new-found urgency, Tony Blair's government is now pressing for a pact with the G8 and five emerging countries on a Kyoto 2 (post-2012) deal to cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2020 and 60% by 2050 via a global trading scheme - to be signed next year or 2008 at the latest.

This zealous haste is laudable but is the goal - and the timeframe - achievable, asks David Gow in Brussels.

guardian.co.uk / Business

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