A wide range of stakeholders have written to the European Commission urging lawmakers to include a sales target for zero emission urban buses in the forthcoming proposal on CO2 standards for new heavy-duty vehicles.
A zero emission sales target for urban buses is necessary to meet demand for these vehicles from Europe’s cities and towns, to clean up urban air, and to put buses on a trajectory compatible with EU climate targets, they write. Crucially, they ask the Commission to propose a target for all new urban buses sales to be zero emission from 2027.
To find out more, download the letter, which is signed by 11 cities as well as civil society organisations from 11 countries.
