Addressing the United Nations World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulation and Technological Innovations, the International Road Transport Union has proposed to shift the legislative focus for heavy commercial vehicles from toxic emissions to CO2 emissions.
The IRU says that the road transport industry has already reduced its toxic emissions by up to 97 per cent over the past 20 years.
IRU Head of Technical Affairs, Jacques Marmy, called upon governments to “strive, in principle, for globally harmonised emission standards and to develop a global certification procedure for CO2 emissions of heavy commercial vehicles.”
