“IG Metall calls for realistic emissions regulations”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Germany’s largest labour union, IG Metall, has called for “strict but achievable” emission limits which take concerns of the car industry into account, writes Holger Appel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Constantly tightened limit values would “overstrain carmakers” and “disregard physical realities”, 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 “clean diesel” technology that is “more climate-friendly than petrol engines”, Appel writes.
For background on the shift to decarbonised mobility in Germany see the CLEW factsheet Energiewende in transportation: Vague goals, modest strides.
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