{"id":393262,"date":"2024-09-30T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/30\/volvo-uber-ayvens-auto-pulite-2035\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:09:48","slug":"volvo-uber-ayvens-and-47-other-companies-eu-goal-of-100-percent-clean-cars-by-2035-should-not-be-renegotiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/30\/volvo-uber-ayvens-and-47-other-companies-eu-goal-of-100-percent-clean-cars-by-2035-should-not-be-renegotiated\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo, Uber, Ayvens and 47 other companies: ‘EU goal of 100 percent clean cars by 2035 should not be renegotiated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The CEOs and executives of 50 European companies <\/strong>have called on the EU not to re-open the 2035 target of selling only zero-emission cars and vans. <\/strong>In a public appeal released today, managers from the automotive, clean technology, transportation, and energy sectors- including Volvo Cars, Uber, and leasing company Ayvens\u00a0– <\/strong>say the target is “feasible and necessary.” Electric vehicle manufacturers Polestar and Rivian <\/strong>joined the initiative, as did logistics company Maersk, <\/strong>retailers Metro and Tesco, <\/strong>and IKEA’s largest franchisee, Ingka.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Climate objective points in the right direction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emissions from cars and vans account for ove<\/strong>r\u00a0an eighth<\/strong> (13 percent) of total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, while CO2 emissions from cars increased by\u00a06 percent<\/strong> between 2000 and 2019. “<\/em>The 2035 target gives a clear direction<\/strong> that will allow us businesses, alongside all other stakeholders, to focus on<\/strong>
\n<\/em>delivering the transformation required<\/strong>,” the executives say in a statement on Industryfor2035.org<\/a><\/strong>, the platform created with the collaboration of Transport & Environment and Climate Group. “It also provides the much-needed investment certainty on the future of the
\nautomotive industry in Europe,” they add.<\/p>\n

Businesses are asking decision-makers to keep the goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of the signatories say they are strongly committed to the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal, and point out that many of them have invested\u00a0considerable resources to achieve it.<\/strong> “We\u00a0therefore call on decision-makers to not reopen<\/strong> the recently adopted car and van CO2 standards in 2026 and thereby maintain the 100% zero-emission car target in 2035,”<\/strong> the statement reads.<\/p>\n

T&E: “Don’t ignore that part of the industry that believes in the transition”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea Boraschi<\/strong>, director of Transport & Environment Italy, said, “This appeal is a reminder to\u00a0consider the motives and commitment of a large part of European industry<\/strong>,\u00a0which believes in the transition<\/strong>, has invested and is investing to make it possible<\/strong>. Its voice should not be ignored, starting with the Italian government that wants to advance the revision of the regulation to 2025 only to weaken it.”<\/p>\n

Climate Group: “Businesses need regulatory stability”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dominic Phinn<\/strong>, head of transport at Climate Group, argues: “To continue to make the transformations needed to\u00a0reduce emissions radically, Europe’s CEOs and industry executives need\u00a0regulatory stability.<\/strong> Their message to the Union’s new policymakers is: ‘Don’t let us down.’ Showing uncertainty about the agreement to phase out endothermic vehicles to 2035 would jeopardize their investments, fleet decarbonization goals, and ultimately the EU’s climate neutrality goal.”<\/p>\n

Businesses call for an industrial policy that supports the transition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Companies stress that the 2035 zero-emissions target received a democratic mandate from EU governments and MEPs in March 2023. Rather than re-open already approved legislation, companies believe efforts should focus on implementing what was already agreed: targeted industrial policy <\/strong>and\u00a0investment support\u00a0<\/strong>for a sustainable European battery supply chain, deployment of charging infrastructure<\/strong> and\u00a0growth of renewable energy, decarbonization of corporate fleets<\/strong> and re-skilling workers\u00a0<\/strong>for the electric transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Industryfor2035, the platform of CEOs and executives of large companies, urges the new Commission and MEPs to deliver on Green Deal commitments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[29145,27648,26299],"class_list":["post-393262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2035-and","tag-auto-electric-en","tag-volvo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393356,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393262\/revisions\/393356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}