Vehicle emission reductions.
Contributors: European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Publisher: ECMT
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Motor vehicles -- Motors -- Exhaust gas -- Environmental aspects.; Air -- Pollution -- Standards.; Air -- Pollution -- Law and legislation.; Motor vehicles -- Pollution control devices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Executive summary; title: Pt. I. Vehicle emission trends. 1. Background and introduction. 2. Environmental problems associated with motor vehicle emissions. 3. EU, US and Japanese emissions control programmes. 4. Progress in reducing emissions and improving air quality. 5. Remaining challenges. Annex A. European emissions regulations. Annex B. US emissions regulations. Annex C. California emissions regulations. Annex D. Japanese emissions regulations. Annex E. US fuel efficiency efforts. Annex F. Japanese programme to reduce fuel consumption. Annex G. Voluntary agreements to reduce CO₂ emissions and monitoring of CO₂ emissions from new cars in Europe. Appendix; title: Pt. II. Sulphur free fuels. References. 1. Fuel quality. 2. Advantages of low sulphur fuels. 3. Current availability of low sulphur fuels. 4. Costs and CO₂ balance. 5. Promoting distribution of low sulphur fuels. 6. Conclusions and recommendations. Summary tables; title: Abbreviations, signs and symbols.