Fuel Economy of Passenger Cars in the Global South

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which released it. Fuel Economy of Passenger Cars in the Global South Fuel Economy of Passenger Cars in the Global South: A case of two steps forward, one step back as fuel economy improvements are reduced by increasing car power and weight This report looks at fuel economy assessments for passenger cars carried out in 109 countries. Of these, 64 developing and transitional countries were supported by UNEP to carry out fuel economy baseline studies, with some of these countries also assisted to develop fuel economy policies. An additional 45 countries included in the analysis have their fuel economy data either publicly available or available through the IEA, a GFEI partner – see Annex 1 for the full list of the countries analysed. The report is a first attempt at assessing the fuel economy in the Global So… Original link: http://www.unep.org/resources/report/fuel-economy-passenger-cars-global-south