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Stone Age car lobby exposed

Fred and Wilma Flintstone kindly lent their 'vintage' car to some of our activists for the day. We wanted to drive it to the European Parliament and deliver a stone tablet bearing the logos of Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes alongside the message "Driving climate change". The car industry is well and truly stuck in the stone age, with potentially dire consequences for the climate.

A Match Made in Car Industry Heaven?

We bring news of one of the biggest weddings of the year, between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Greenwash can't hide the car industry's true colours

One of the biggest events in the car industry's calendar, the ongoing Geneva Car Show is awash with companies talking green, talking 'climate control'. When Greenpeace looked under the bonnet of the of the industry PR green machine it found the same old engine of climate destruction.

Car industry's green claims a fairy tale

It seems you can't turn anywhere at a motor show these days without numerous manufacturers green claims competing for attention. But take a peek under the green hood and the industry has a huge, dirty, lobbying engine still stuck in reverse.