Environmentalists, business on collision course for putting cars on CO2 market

EurActiv reported on the 21 August 2014 that the European Union thought about following California's lead and include road transport in the EU carbon market.

Bringing transport - Europe's biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the power sector - into the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) could bring down the costs the car industry faces in meeting existing regulation as well as tackling the oversupply on the carbon market.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU tables free carbon permit proposal for heavy industries http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-tables-free-carbon-permit-proposal-for-heavy-industries/

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