Average CO2 emissions from new cars registered in the European Union, Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom in 2020 were 107.8 grams of CO2 per kilometre in 2020, a 12% decrease compared to 2019, reveal provisional data published on Tuesday 29 June by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
“This is by far the greatest annual decrease in emissions since CO2 standards started to apply in 2010”, the European Commission said in a statement.
The main reason for this decrease is the...