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News Digest Item
09 Nov 2016

ā€œIG Metall calls for realistic emissions regulationsā€

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Germany’s largest labour union, IG Metall, has called for ā€œstrict but achievableā€ emission limits which take concerns of the car industry into account, writes Holger Appel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Constantly tightened limit values would ā€œoverstrain carmakersā€ and ā€œdisregard physical realitiesā€, the union argues, according to Appel. In a five-point plan that IG Metall plans to present in Brussels, the union calls for a lower annual reduction factor for emission limits and makes a case for ā€œclean dieselā€ technology that is ā€œmore climate-friendly than petrol enginesā€, Appel writes.

For background on the shift to decarbonised mobility in Germany see the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet Energiewende in transportation: Vague goals, modest strides.

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