Brussels - The German government has succeeded in delaying the approval of an EU agreement on CO2 emission standards for cars reached on Monday. Following the personal intervention of German chancellor Angela Merkel late on Wednesday night, a...

Brussels – Germany has once again managed to postpone a deal on lowering the climate impact of Europe’s cars, in a move that Greenpeace says endangers the progress already made in tackling carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars in Europe.

Brussels – Negotiators from the European Parliament, the Lithuanian EU presidency and the European Commission agreed today to further dilute the EU’s carbon emission standards for cars, after Germany managed to derail a previous compromise...

Brussels, 24 April 2013 – Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted in favour of long-term targets to improve car fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions by 2025. But MEPs also voted to weaken the EU’s 2020 target...

Luxembourg - Today, Greenpeace activists appealed to the European Union’s environment ministers gathered in Luxembourg to reject German proposals to weaken the EU’s CO2 emission standards for cars.