Car growth defeats emission controls
|B ae THE improvements made to engine efficiency, the increasing numbers of cars and trucks on the world’s roads is overwhelming any gains, according to a new study. The World Resources Institute, a respected Washington environmental think-tank, says that there are now 540 million vehicles in the world, a figure predicted to soar to nearly one billion early next century. Between 1971 and 1987, CO? emissions from vehicles rose by 63 percent. In another 20 years the emissions may grow by 50 percent, increasing the menace of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion.
The report says that car manufacturers must start to produce non-polluting cars or cars that do not use fossil fuels. One factor could assist in this — there are only 14 car manufacturing firms concentrated in North America, Japan and Western Europe. Source: Climate Alert
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Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 May 1991, Page 9
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142Car growth defeats emission controls Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 May 1991, Page 9
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