Proposed fuel efficiency standards in both the U.S. and EU will not reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks over the long term, according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute.
“Total emissions from this part of the transport sector are dependent on how many people drive, what they drive, and how they drive,” said the report’s author Lee Schipper, director of research at EMBARQ: The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport. “Fuel efficiency standards only address what they drive, and they don’t even do that very well.”
