As far as one can tell from a public debate held during the Environment Council in Brussels on Monday 5 March, the proposal for a regulation for a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions from new cars and light vans within the EU by 2030, with an intermediary objective of -15% by 2025, is already causing a rift between member states with more prevalent climate ambitions and those concerned by preserving the competitiveness of their motor industry.
Initially, the European Commission proposal was to be...