Today the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) presented ten interesting plans to fight climate change at the COP21 in Paris. We know the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has underlined, in its fourth and fifth assessments reports, how crucial it is for the planet’s survival to maintain global warming under 2°C by 2100 above pre-industrialised levels. The only way to achieve this target is by reducing GHG emissions worldwide. To decrease those emissions, especially of CO2, the transport field plays a key role. For instance, in the EU transport’s CO2 emissions represent 1/5 of the total and remain more than 20% higher than in 1990. In addition, those emissions are undeniably going to increase in developing and emerging countries by 2050. Reducing the GHG emitted from vehicles and their energy consumption worldwide doesn’t mean that the economy is going to back down. In reality, quite the opposing will happen as has divulged the International Energy Agency (IEA), reducing by 50% transport’s CO2 emissions can be attained by 2050 without impacting economic growth. Those ten GFEI initiatives were presented today following this objective to reduce transport’s CO2 and keep the economy on track by 2050. Who supports these initiatives? The GFEI was launched by the FIA foundation (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), the International Transport Forum (ITF), the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Alternative powertrains like hybrids, EVs, fuel-cell hydrogen or CNG vehicles also play a part into this global warming mitigation. An efficient way to make those CO2 reductions effective is investing and promoting them. If 20% of all road vehicles are electric-powered by 2030 this temperature rising will remain, hopefully, under 2°C by 2100 attests the IEA. There is no doubt that more and more car companies are going to endorse green and sustainable transport and mobility actions. Effectively, global EV pioneers Tesla Motors and Renault-Nissan are part of the collective Declaration of Paris on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change, also presented today, which promotes transport electrification.
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