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VW Vows to Meet Europe CO2 Emission Goal by 2020
Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn pledges that the company will do "everything in our power" to achieve Europe's target that new vehicles emit an average of only 95 g/km by 2020.
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Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn pledges that the company will do "everything in our power" to achieve Europe's target that new vehicles emit an average of only 95 g/km by 2020.
Europe's new-car fleet averaged about 136 g/km of CO2 in 2011, according to the European Environment Agency.
The European Union has set a new-car fleet average standard of 130 g/km by 2015 and is still debating the methodology for measuring compliance with the 2020 target.
Winterkorn says VW's vow covers the group's entire new-vehicle fleet "without any reservations." The company notes that its public declaration follows two years of sometimes confrontational discussions with Greenpeace International, the Amsterdam-based federation of regional environmental activist groups.
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