page_title: ACEA agreement
section_title: Progress towards the target
hierarchical_section_title: ACEA agreement / Progress towards the target
caption_attribution_description: Overview of progress on the ACEA agreements between the European automobile manufacturers to limit CO2 emissions towards the 2008 target of 140 g CO2 per kilometer (marked in green) and towards the European Commission's ultimate target of 120 gram/km for 2010 Based on figures from the European Commission's "Annual report for the monitoring year 2004", available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/co2/pdf/com_2006_463_en.pdf
context_page_description: The ACEA agreement refers to a voluntary agreement between the European Automobile Manufacturers Association and the European Commission to limit the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by passenger cars sold in Europe. With 18 million cars sold each year, Europe is the last major car market in the world.
  Signed in 1998, the agreement sought to achieve an average of 140 g/km of CO₂ by 2008 for new passenger vehicles sold by the association's cars in Europe. This target represents a 25% reduction from the 1995 level of 186 g/km and is equivalent to a fuel economy of 5.8 L/100 km or 5.25 L/100 km for petrol and diesel engines respectively. However, the average for the whole car market for 2008 was 153.7 g/km, so the target has not been achieved.
  Besides the agreement with ACEA, the European Commission also closed agreements with the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association and Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association. However, for the latter two the target date is 2009 instead of 2008 and as ACEA accounts for 86.4% of car sales in Europe, the impact of the latter two is much smaller.
caption: ACEA's progress towards the 140g target (dark green), based on the Commission's 2004 progress report. Also shown is the 120g final target of EU (light green).
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