Cars & CO2

Transport is the worst performing sector under ‘Kyoto’ and seriously jeopardises the achievement of the targets. Transport CO2 emissions in the EU grew by 32% between 1990 and 2005. Other sectors reduced their emissions by 9.5% on average over the same period. The share of transport in CO2 emissions was 21% in 1990, but by 2005 this had grown to 27%. Emissions from so-called ‘light duty vehicles’ (passenger cars and vans) are responsible for approximately half of this.

Regulating the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars is the single most effective policy measure the EU can take to simultaneously tackle climate change, reduce dependence on oil, and spur investment in low-carbon car technologies in Europe and elsewhere.

Terra! works together with Friends of the Earth and a network of European NGOs to promote a European law on car efficiency and the regulation of CO2 emissions..

No breathing!

Monday, 20 October 2008 10:45

Terra! denounces CO2 pollution from cars at all the ltz access points in Rome. The Italian government is boycotting the European Union's climate package, to the detriment of the environment and Italians

Last night 200 road signs protesting against CO2 pollution from cars appeared at the 40 electronic access points to the Limited Traffic Zones in Rome. The activists of the environmentalist association Terra! strike again.

“No entry to the historical centre for vehicles with CO2 emissions higher than 120 g/km”, “Stop CO2”, “No breathing!”, is what it says on the road signs that the Terra! association placed last night at the electronic access points to the Limited Traffic Zones in Rome, to denounce increasing pollution and climate change.

150 statues to say NO to CO2 emissions

Thursday, 05 June 2008 13:39

angelo The marble features of some of Rome's most famous statues were obscured by gas masks on Thursday as part of a protest against traffic pollution organized by Terra!
Under the slogan "The statues say NO to pollution from CO2 emissions!," the group "Terra!" are lobbying for the European Union to reduce the ceiling for cars' carbon dioxide emissions.
The masks and "CO2" placards appeared overnight on statues of saints, poets, angels and emperors in piazzas and on bridges throughout the capital, before being removed by the authorities.