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Critical evaluation of the European diesel car boom - global comparison, environmental effects and various national strategies

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By Michel Cames, Eckard Helmers
| Journal of Banking Regulation Verified
On the way to a more sustainable society, transport needs to be urgently optimized regarding energy consumption and pollution control. While in earlier decades, Europe followed automobile technology leaps initiated in the USA, it has decoupled itself for 20 years by focusing research capacity towards the diesel powertrain. The resulting technology shift has led to some 45 million extra diesel cars in Europe. Its outcome in terms of health and environmental effects will be investigated below.
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Critical evaluation of the European diesel car boom - global comparison, environmental effects and various national strategies

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By Michel Cames, Eckard Helmers
| enveurope.com
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988. Its creation may be considered as the beginning of a global political commitment to combat the threat of climate change. The political efforts of the 1990s years resulted in the Kyoto protocol adopted in 1997, where particularly European countries committed themselves to significant reductions of GHG emissions. The European Union signed the Kyoto protocol with the commitment to save 8% GHG by 2012.
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