| Report | New climate policies | 7 June 2010 |
Raising the toll on the transport sector
by Hughes Belin
The European energy industry has long complained about the ‘easy ride’ given to the transport sector by European Union lawmakers. Transport is a big emitter of greenhouse gases and the energy industry feels that the burden of EU climate policy should be fairly distributed. As European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has made greening the transport sector one of the main priorities for his second mandate, one can expect that the sector will finally start to pay a higher toll. However, for politicians the holy motor car is a much more difficult target than “dirty” power plants. EER takes stock of Brussels’ transport policy.
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