News I United Nations Publishes iCET Report "A Global Overview on Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Emission Standards"

iCET has completed the report, “A Global Overview on Fuel Efficiency and Motor Vehicle Emission Standards: Policy Options and Perspectives for International Cooperation,” at the request of the Commission on Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations for the occasion of the Nineteenth Session which will be held on 2nd-13th of May 2011 in New York.

The report provides updated profiles for the United States (both federal and California approach), the European Union, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Canada, India and Latin American developing countries and outlines challenges and potential solutions for methodologies for comparing standards between different countries and regions. The full report is available on the UN website and can be downloaded at:

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_pdfs/csd-19/Background-paper3-transport.pdf