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• Position: United Nations - Brief article

See "Diesels versus Hybrids," July/August 2005, p. 19

The head of the UN Climate Secretariat warned last month that governments have to work harder at cleaning up auto and truck emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Vehicles account for about one-fifth of global GHG emissions. Transport-related emissions were 20 percent above 1990 levels in 2003; the target under the Kyoto protocol is 5 percent below those levels by 2012. Meanwhile...