Dozens of Countries and 6 Companies will Abandon Internal Combustion Cars by 2040

Between 2035 and 2040, thirty countries and six leading manufacturers will completely abandon the production and sale of cars with internal combustion engines.

The agreement quoted by Reuters and El Pais, which will be formally signed later today, says participants will work to ensure that "all sales of new cars have zero emissions worldwide by 2040 and no later than 2035 in the main markets ".

The plan, announced during the climate meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, is another important agreement, albeit with insufficient support from countries, in trying to stick to the goals of the 2015 deal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 to relative to pre-industrial levels.

In this regard, the transport sector is key because it produces between 20 and 25% of the world's emissions, and about 90 percent comes from land traffic.

 

Who is not in the agreement, again

Of Europe, the largest acceding country is the United Kingdom. At EU level, however, there are no large markets such as Germany, France and Spain at the moment (however, Spain's accession is not ruled out in principle). The United States and China are not part of the agreement, like the agreement to abandon coal.

Germany will not sign the declaration today, as there is still no agreement in the government. There is a consensus in Berlin that only zero-emission vehicles should be registered by 2035, but not whether to limit the use of internal combustion engines.

Reuters sources familiar with the deal say the automakers are not the world's two leading manufacturers, Toyota and Volkswagen.

Among the 30 that will present the pact are Canada, India, the Netherlands,...

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