SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate

140 investors call on EU for ambitious long-term standards on CO2 emissions from cars and vans

Brussels, 06/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

Some 143 institutional investors who manage assets of over $20 trillion and are firmly committed to the Paris Agreement on the climate are asking for new ambitious standards on emissions from cars and vans by 2030 and also by 2050.

This was the objective of the letter they wrote to EU policymakers, Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), stated on 4 October.  The IIGCC is a forum for collaboration on climate change for investors from 12...