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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12559

15 September 2020
SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate
NGOs call on Ursula von der Leyen to set 2035 for end of sales of cars and vans with combustion engines
Brussels, 14/09/2020 (Agence Europe)

European NGOs (Avere, Beuc, T&E, Climate Group EV 100) call on the EU to set a date of 2035 for the end of sales of cars and vans with internal combustion engines. This is, in their view, the only way to enable the EU to comply with the Paris Agreement and achieve the objective of climate neutrality by 2050.

Their joint letter of 11 September addressed primarily to Ursula von der Leyen, with a copy to the European Parliament and the German Presidency of the ‘Environment’ Council of the...

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