The Government’s Powering Future Vehicles (‘PFV’) Strategy was launched by the Prime Minister in July 2002. The objectives of the Strategy are to: * promote the development, introduction and take up of low-carbon vehicles and fuels; * ensure the full involvement of the UK automotive industry in the new technologies. Low-carbon vehicles and fuels offer opportunities to radically reduce the environmental impact of road transport – both locally in terms of reduced air pollution emissions and lower noise and globally in terms of climate change. The transport sector produces about one quarter of the UK’s total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas. Road transport contributes 85% of this, with passenger cars accounting for around one half of all carbon emitted by the transport sector. Over the last two decades there has been major progress in improving air pollution emissions from cars, as a result of the progressively tighter European emissions standards, and emissions will reduce even further as new emissions standards take effect. (Author/publisher)
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